Example sentences of "[vb base] up a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 2 | Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage . |
| 3 | The age-old method of casting bells was to make a clay mould of the inside shape of the bell , then build up a layer of beeswax round it to the shape and thickness of the finished bell . |
| 4 | They circle the Earth repetitively and , as the Earth rotates eastwards below their orbital path , their instruments build up a picture of land and sea-surface conditions and the state of the atmosphere . |
| 5 | Science is a collective enterprise ; over time , researchers build up a body of wisdom which tells them which are the important variables to include when modelling a particular process , and which must be controlled . |
| 6 | Mix up a couple of wash colours of varying intensity . |
| 7 | Mix up a batch of colour and apply a wash to several different watercolour sheets ( Not surface ) . |
| 8 | " Free ale all round tonight lads ! " he told them , and they put up a cheer of delight . |
| 9 | It 's not usual to make new partners put up a lot of cash . ’ |
| 10 | Hold up a finger at arm's-length , close one eye , and line your finger up with a picture or some other convenient object some way away . |
| 11 | William 's best plan now would be to get himself established in a job , save up a bit of money , then get married and move into his own little house . |
| 12 | If a man had been repeatedly unsuccessful he would go to the river , dive to the bottom and bring up a lump of clay with which he would mark his forehead , taking care to be unobserved , otherwise the spell lost its efficacy . |
| 13 | ‘ You do a row of liddle white lines , not too regular , then you back up a row of liddle grey lines next to ‘ em . |
| 14 | You know the kind of thing I mean : the chickens dart into the mêlée , pick up a morsel of food , and then charge off to eat it in comparative quiet . |
| 15 | We say well pick up a bit of experience here |
| 16 | All he had to do was stroll down to Underwoods and pick up a bit of dynercaprol and potassium chloride . |
| 17 | One by one , punters disappear into the doorway , pick up a couple of dime bags of coke , and move off . |
| 18 | If you just pick up a sherd of pottery , okay , that really by itself ca n't tell you an awful lot . |
| 19 | Pick up a chunk of coal . |
| 20 | pick up a load of beer mats . |
| 21 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 22 | ‘ Pick up a piece of chicken and all the flavours of that dish are on that piece of chicken . |
| 23 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 24 | To help , just contact Sight Savers at 21 The Strand , Bromsgrove , Worcestershire B61 8AB ( tel : 0527 579226 ) or pick up a leaflet from Sound Control at 61 Jamaica Street , Glasgow G1 4NN for a sponsorship form , and then go along to either the Birmingham Town Hall on Sunday September the 20th between 2.00pm and 4.00pm , or our Scottish Music Show at the SECC in Glasgow at the same time . |
| 25 | Oil production will fall by about 5% to make up 26% of total production while coal production will increase by 60%to make up a proportion of energy production similar to 1983 . |
| 26 | Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture . |
| 27 | Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar . |
| 28 | Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives . |
| 29 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
| 30 | But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf . |