Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Shandling , host of the ceremony in Los Angeles , warned the audience after Clapton had picked up the Best Album Grammy : ‘ If you are up in any other categories against Eric Clapton , I would go home now . ’ |
| 2 | Earlier , holidaying in the less exotic Yorkshire resort of Filey she had picked up the American Beat anthology Protest , one of the volumes triggered by the ‘ on the road ’ boom after 1957 . |
| 3 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 4 | Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide . |
| 5 | He felt as abject as a convalescent child and had to be helped up the three stone flights to his cell . |
| 6 | He had bought up the loss-making Radio Aire in Leeds and Red Rose in Preston , and turned them round . |
| 7 | The British — who had dreamed up the Free City idea in the first place — came out of the exercise very badly , while the Dutch and Italians did rather better . |
| 8 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 9 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 10 | Their movements would have kicked up the fine silt carpet on the bottom of the lake , obscuring vision . |
| 11 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 12 | They had walked up the worn stone staircase , arm in arm , with their beautiful girl child dancing around them . |
| 13 | Strathclyde , a huge left-Labour-controlled council , had not even set up the required risk-capital fund . |
| 14 | It was reported on Feb. 6 that a presidential decree of Jan. 29 had set up the Atomic Energy Ministry ( Minatom ) of the Russian Federation . |
| 15 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 16 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
| 17 | To counteract that Murphy has set up the Edinburgh-based PR Centre . |
| 18 | To promote their interests , and to provide a forum for the expression of opinions , the RMC 's set up the Regional Management Centres Association ( RMCS ) in the mid-1970s . |
| 19 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 20 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 21 | Shell UK has started up the new ethylbenzene production unit at its Stanlow manufacturing complex . |
| 22 | He has already put up the four corner posts . |
| 23 | By the time they had splashed up the far bank Nathaniel Sherman was fifty yards away , moving erratically , breasting the grass , preparing to risk a standing shot at two hundred yards . |