Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a female researcher is more likely to recognise , and pick up certain cues , or pick up the ways in which she 's not actually being addressed , than a male researcher necessarily . |
| 2 | The heightened interest in underwater archaeology caused by the find of the Brindisi bronzes has prompted the new Ministro per i Beni Culturali , Alberto Ronchey , to propose changes in the law : first , to extend the limit of Italian territorial waters beyond the six miles off the coast currently in force and beyond the seabed on the continental shelf ( no distance has yet been specified ) ; second , to consider allocating underwater ‘ concessions ’ to non-government teams who would take a course in the theory and practice of underwater excavation and make up the shortfall in trained divers . |
| 3 | You see , under the old law when a married man without a family his brother was to take on the widow and raise up a family in the name and in the memory of his brother . |
| 4 | When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret . |
| 5 | The wild Colorado would flood every spring with snowmelt from its mountain headwaters , nourishing the riverbank ecosystems , and building up the waves in the big rapids to the size of three-storey houses . |
| 6 | He could go and dig up the roadworks during the night , and get some cement made up in a small container and cement up the holes in manhole covers you used to lift the things up by . |
| 7 | It was a long tale of low-cost facelifts , make do and mend , and cover up the cracks in a coat of Network SouthEast red , white and blue paint . |
| 8 | Cords over the shoulders and under the armpits cross on the back to hold the garment down at speed , and break up the surface in a more superficial pattern of folds . |
| 9 | The students and staff were up at Sam re-painting the stones and filling up the holes in the road . |
| 10 | Their new LP ( their best since their first , Psychocandy ) is good for different reasons : because it has the sort of rumbling guitars and invigorating , climbing , bittersweet songs that make you jump out of bed and open up the curtains in the morning . |
| 11 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 12 | However , he was mindful of his limitations and , after some time , he was able to arrange for a ‘ godly , diligent physician ’ to come and set up a practice in the town to relieve him of this burden . |
| 13 | Most of that is presently with your offices and draw up a reports in a moment , it was on special education needs , and so on . |
| 14 | They 'd gone through its pockets and piled up the contents in a heap . |
| 15 | Aggie still would not contemplate getting a mouser and when Harold raised the roof about the lethal traps she threw them out and blocked up the holes in the flooring and the wooden skirting-boards with old newspapers soaked in lavender water . |
| 16 | Albert cut it out , snipping around the paragraph that said that her husband was the buyer in the men 's sports-clothes department of the same store , and pinned up the clipping in his room . |
| 17 | Perhaps hooligans should be attired in some drab and identifying dress and required to carry out repairs and clean up the areas in which their depredations have taken place . |
| 18 | If its enemy is still not daunted and picks up the toad in its teeth , the poison acts so swiftly and powerfully on the mucous membranes of the mouth that the attacker drops the toad almost immediately . |
| 19 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 20 | When the war ended in 1813 , he returned to New York and took up an appointment in charge of the design and construction of ships for the U.S. Navy in its Brooklyn yard . |
| 21 | But this would be moving in and making up the message in the style of the ‘ missing ’ letters in Poor People , the first story of all . |
| 22 | To propagate it , lift and divide up the plants in spring and repot them . |
| 23 | She held an overhanging branch with one hand , as though to steady herself , and put up the other in a gesture of greeting . |
| 24 | When the War Office discovered in 1881 that Clarke had been at a home station for twenty-seven years , it ordered him to sever his connection with the Ordnance Survey and take up a post in Mauritius . |
| 25 | Uhde writes : ‘ The crystallization ( of Cubism ) as a style owed much to Braque ’ , and summing up the differences in their characters , ‘ Braque 's temperament was limpid , precise and bourgeois ; Picasso 's , sombre , excessive and revolutionary . |
| 26 | He eventually squeezed through a 12-inch gap in his shattered rear windscreen , and crawled up the bank in agony to raise the alarm . |
| 27 | I stuck my nose in the beaker and hoovered up the aroma in the approved fashion . |
| 28 | A bearer slipped in behind Owen and stood up a gun in the corner behind Garvin 's desk . |
| 29 | It will also help to alert us and loosen up the joints in the spine by squeezing out fluid from the discs between the vertebrae ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 30 | He probably tried the door to the house , found that unlocked as well and picked up the hammer in case he was disturbed . ’ |