Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind had dropped completely , but there was still a heavy sea running and each wave sent up a sheet of spray as it crashed against the rocks below . |
| 2 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 3 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 4 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 5 | Reports were carried by Agence-France Presse on May 1 of heavy fighting around Saa'da involving Moslem tribes opposed to unity , and by the UK newspaper the Independent on May 12 suggesting that Saudi Arabia was fomenting this resistance to hold up the unity process [ but see p. 37266 for official Saudi position welcoming unification ] . |
| 6 | Another flash lit up the sky . |
| 7 | This study followed up a cohort of 386 patients aged 65 + for six months after their discharge home . |
| 8 | This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument . |
| 9 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 10 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 11 | Yeah , she wanted to get some fabric to make up a jacket . |
| 12 | The Treasury Select Committee will have fun discussing the precise significance of that measure , which is another attempt to talk up the economy and persuade consumers that it is all right to spend now . |
| 13 | ‘ And what 's to stop this dame tanking up the deal later ? |
| 14 | Now , what we 'll need to get you doing , is some exercise to strengthen up the muscle across there . |
| 15 | This Act set up a Board of Education to supervise the education system . |
| 16 | If your band 's sound is less strongly defined , then you may need some help to dream up a style and image Libraries are a good source of inspiration , and by browsing through the books and magazines on fashion you may get some ideas . |
| 17 | ‘ This picture sums up the film . |
| 18 | This picture sums up the Falklands campaign . ’ |
| 19 | Another bomb blew up a petrol pump near the headquarters of the Shiv Sena party , part of the Hindu nationalist movement . |
| 20 | Another bomb blew up a petrol pump near the headquarters of the Shiv Sena party , part of the Hindu nationalist movement . |
| 21 | Identification of this group opens up the problem of the date of the king 's baptism , and by extension the chronology as well as the interpretation of the second half of his reign . |
| 22 | This quotation sums up the reason for the publication by WACC of Few Voices , Many Worlds . |
| 23 | This surplus pushes up the yen , which ought to boost imports . |
| 24 | The Republic also pointed the way to the future in its attempts to regulate English trade in a way that would help English shipping though its efforts were not immediately successful ; the monarchy took the same legislative approach , but was able to make its laws effective and on this basis set up a system of control of trade in the empire that survived until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | This transformation sets up a ring in which the values of the variables shared between the unc are passed around in sequence . |
| 26 | You see , a tour of this magnitude throws up a forest of red tape for the intrepid journo to fight through and you can spend practically a whole day being shuffled from one ‘ no ’ man to the next , understandably concerned to protect their baby from unofficial liggers and prowling hacks . |
| 27 | Both radicals and the men of government criticized traditional Spain and its values ; this criticism opened up the polemics of Europeanization which have lasted until today . |
| 28 | Although this procedure speeds up the meeting , the dangers of such a course of action should be realised . |
| 29 | what are the best exercises then or the best form of exercise to build up some ticker to build up the heart ? |
| 30 | Which reminds me that the Jocks — I mean the real guardsmen who arrived from England this morning to make up the complement , not you phoney chaps , are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon . |