Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 2 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 3 | He bent to pick up the curl of hair , which he put carefully in his pocket , next to his heart . |
| 4 | As George bent to pick up the halter of the horse which the boy had been holding , he looked round the yard with interest , noting how his father 's voice , though by no means a shout , had penetrated every corner . |
| 5 | The bus stopped to pick up a passenger off one of the first terraced streets of the town . |
| 6 | Fran turned to leave , then stopped to pick up the photograph of her father . |
| 7 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 8 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 9 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 10 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 11 | If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment — — he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy . |
| 12 | He tried to cover up the flutter of surprise by leaning forward and telling the driver it was time to return to New Scotland Yard . |
| 13 | Four Ministers apparently tried to cover up the truth by hiding under a cloak of secrecy . |
| 14 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 15 | Mr Vassiliou , 61 , seeking a second five-year term , helped to draw up the formula as a basis for negotiation which would bring down the dividing ‘ green line ’ . |
| 16 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 17 | In fact they had Mala 's and my molecu-prints and other data from our previous visits , and that helped to speed up the process to a slow crawl . |
| 18 | No matter how hard the WRU tried to dress up the occasion with male voice choirs and star tenors , there was little genuine entertainment on offer . |
| 19 | A WOMAN passer-by who tried to break up a fight outside a Chinese take-away restaurant was punched in the face , Brain-tree magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 20 | The police were attacked as they tried to break up a crowd of about 10,000 people gathered in a field at Sidlow Bridge , near Reigate , Surrey . |
| 21 | The Coppergate bear commemorates the city 's Viking connection which stretch back 1,000 years and the Guy Fawkes bear , complete with its own poem , is a reminder that the man who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament was born only a few doors from the shop . |
| 22 | He did n't know why he kept them really , except that they helped to make up the number on the shelves . |
| 23 | The media helped to make up the minds of those who were newly interested in politics , or unusually interested in politics , interested in the election but not very interested in politics generally . |
| 24 | State Papers and other sources indicate that Stringer ran a large foundry business , owned ships for exporting and importing metals and ordnance , and planned to set up a company for colonizing West Indian islands . |
| 25 | The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan , including a broadcasting station . |
| 26 | ‘ We originally agreed to set up a group for mothers whose children were being dealt with in a child protection context , ’ explains the counselling project co-ordinator Hazel Hickson . |
| 27 | The government met in emergency session on May 22 and agreed to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the assassination . |
| 28 | The government in January 1990 agreed to set up an investigation into political murders in the states of Michoacán and Guerrero . |
| 29 | The little room seemed to conjure up a scene from the past , an almost timeless memory . |
| 30 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |