Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " 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 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | Another flash lit up the sky . |
| 6 | This study followed up a cohort of 386 patients aged 65 + for six months after their discharge home . |
| 7 | This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument . |
| 8 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 9 | Yeah , she wanted to get some fabric to make up a jacket . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ And what 's to stop this dame tanking up the deal later ? |
| 12 | Now , what we 'll need to get you doing , is some exercise to strengthen up the muscle across there . |
| 13 | This Act set up a Board of Education to supervise the education system . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ This picture sums up the film . |
| 16 | Another bomb blew up a petrol pump near the headquarters of the Shiv Sena party , part of the Hindu nationalist movement . |
| 17 | Another bomb blew up a petrol pump near the headquarters of the Shiv Sena party , part of the Hindu nationalist movement . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This quotation sums up the reason for the publication by WACC of Few Voices , Many Worlds . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This transformation sets up a ring in which the values of the variables shared between the unc are passed around in sequence . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Although this procedure speeds up the meeting , the dangers of such a course of action should be realised . |
| 24 | what are the best exercises then or the best form of exercise to build up some ticker to build up the heart ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 27 | In a rare act of unity , all the opposition parties save the Communists banded together this week to set up a shadow cabinet . |
| 28 | A FLURRY of legal proceedings will this week turn up the heat in the already simmering Timex dispute in Dundee . |
| 29 | Or does this example point up the absurdity of the assumption ‘ keep everything ’ ? |
| 30 | This analysis sums up a view which is embraced with varying degrees of enthusiasm . |