Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've given up the cello for the moment , ’ said Finch . |
| 2 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 3 | I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT . |
| 4 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 5 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 6 | Whenever the Fedpol think they 've built up a case on one world or another , they find platoons of sharp lawyers appearing , kilocreds are spent , evidence vanishes , witnesses have strange accidents … |
| 7 | Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |
| 9 | ‘ And now you 've built up an appetite for sampling some of the fish which may have been brought ashore here ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've grown up a lot in the last two years , ’ she said quietly and I silently agreed with her . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've made up every word of it and you know it . |
| 12 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
| 13 | We 've cleaned up a lot of parts of our city . |
| 14 | We 've , we 've soaked up a lot of pressure without having too many goal attempts at us , and then we 've broke away and scored two goals ; the plan 's worked a treat and I was due to do something right . |
| 15 | To make them easier to serve , we 've firmed up the mixture with a few fine cake crumbs so that they do n't melt the moment they hit room temperature . |
| 16 | But I 've packed up a bundle of bedding — towels — things like that for you to use in the meantime . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 've set up a sub-group on child protection and invited schools to further training and seminars . |
| 18 | Because we 've set up a deal with that school |
| 19 | ‘ Few clients can give us a breakdown but historically we 've burnt up a lot of fuel . |
| 20 | Er we 've run up a cost of two hundred and fifty quid getting . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer . |
| 22 | WE 'VE lined up a host of money-saving offers to give you and the kids a day you 'll never forget . |
| 23 | We 've lined up a host of money-saving family days out at Britain 's fabulous theme parks — and you can cash in . |
| 24 | Our competition could be the answer to your problems , as you can lay out the wardrobe interior just as you need it , after you 've put up the wardrobe with the help of the instructions provided . |
| 25 | They 've dug up a lot of human bones at my old uncle 's house … ‘ |
| 26 | I have given up a lot of my independence . ’ |
| 27 | These doctors have given up the notion of being specialists and of being involved in hospital medicine but the idea of coping with the medical problem is still a potent force in their ideologies . |
| 28 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 29 | We saved the party in nineteen eighty three , the G M B saved the party in that er , a crisis time th with the formation of the S D P and today the Tory government on its knees , staggering along and we have some people in the leadership of the Party and including , we can name them now , somebody 's written , writte written to all the constituencies , Neil Kinnock , who have given up the ghost of Labour ever winning again , and that 's what 's the base and the root of what 's going on , that 's why they want these proposals going through , they want to separate the trade unions from the Party so they can do a deal with the Liberals because they 've given up . |
| 30 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |