Example sentences of "be [verb] up [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Burgh is speaking us very fairly and friendly , but both his hands are gathering up the borders round us . |
| 2 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 3 | Mr. Anderson : If we are to fill up the beds in our very welcome Holiday Inn in Swansea , we need , as the Secretary of State will be aware , to clean up Swansea bay . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 5 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 6 | MOST self-respecting museum directors will now be counting up the takings from the holiday season . |
| 7 | Instead , I 'll be taking up the ideas of Mr. Peter A. Fletcher and others for some more modern rock'n'roll and country licks . |
| 8 | Many of the biggest companies are refusing to take on new clients with such cars , and are jacking up the premiums on existing business . |
| 9 | MIPS ' known design wins , including SNI , Sumitomo Electric Inc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , Acer Group Inc and parent SGI , are not the stuff of massive volumes despite MIPS ' claims that Sony Corp and NEC Corp are racking up the numbers in Japan . |
| 10 | He 'd whistle and all the horses would run over to us ; and there we were surrounded by these great horses , and we were holding up the babies to them ! |
| 11 | He was one of the seven magnates whose confederation in April 1258 began the revolution ; he was one of the baronial twelve who were to draw up the plans of reform ; and he was one of the council of fifteen set up by the Provisions of Oxford to govern England in the king 's name . |
| 12 | By that date , he was an ailing man , and apart from his routine duties , his first tasks were to clear up the muddles of the last few years and re-establish an acceptable procedure for future episcopal elections , investitures , and acts of homage . |
| 13 | As the tale came to us , my lord , the boy was seen bound and muffled , being led up the slopes from Severn into Parfois . |
| 14 | By the time he died there were no animals left in the yard , nor land to call his own , for it had been sold to the building men , who were throwing up The Courts in order to house the rabble from starving Ireland and those flooding in from all the villages from miles around , all in the hope of being set on and blankets and shawls , everything that would go to cover a human being . |
| 15 | I am setting up a 36″ × 12″ × 18″ tank , in which I hope to keep Clown Fish , a Yellow Tang , a Regal Tang , a Hawk Fish , a Fire Goby and a Cleaner Shrimp . |
| 16 | Q I am setting up a 48″ × 12″ × 22″ tank to simulate the Amazon basin . |
| 17 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 18 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 19 | Though Daisy 's tightened up the rules at the Cattery — did I show you her new brochure ? ’ |
| 20 | The purpose of critical appraisal is to show up the effects of a proposal before time and effort are invested in putting an idea into action . |
| 21 | The first step is to make up the templates of all the shaped parts of the chair . |
| 22 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 23 | Another favourite pastime was to chat up the girls from Directory Enquiries while they were getting phone numbers . |
| 24 | As Clinton was taking up the reins of power , a disconsolate President Bush flew back to Washington to make arrangements for the handover . |
| 25 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 26 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |