Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members .
2	If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price .
3	as if to prove it , our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council 's gardening competition .
4	Paradoxically the threat to their survival posed by reorganization appears to have gingered up the interested members of the dying Kensington , Chelsea and Westminster area authority .
5	The call for a probe follows a letter sent to Sunday Life last week by inmates in the powderkeg jail who have set up the Concerned Prisoners For Justice Committee .
6	‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says .
7	He made a likeness of Helen of Troy which convinced all who came to sacrifice there that the Trojan War had been well fought ; and for this famous portrait , Zeuxis had lined up the young women of Croton , and taking an ear from one , the set of chin from another , the legs , the arms and stomach and so forth of others , he had assembled his divine beauty .
8	While it was the Today newspaper that focused national attention on the fact that the Princess did not have to travel half way round the world to find clean water , it is the aptly-named CoastGuard that has kept up the high standards of cleanliness for royalty and commoners alike .
9	She saw that its heat had completely dried up the wet streaks of the map drawn by the stranger 's finger .
10	Here the examiner will probably have divided up the possible marks in his mind among the component parts , and an answer to one part , be it ever so brilliant , can earn only the appropriate total for that part .
11	I 've placed the background as an event , and have also loaded up the big trees as an actor .

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