Example sentences of "and [vb base] up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't take along a shade fringe with dozens of colours — pull out a few ‘ whiskers ’ in basic shades and make up a fringe of your own . |
| 2 | We are glad that is able to be with us twice this season , and that has agreed to continue her regular music lessons for the early birds as well as taking a number of sessions. , and make up the rest of the team and we all look forward to working with you . |
| 3 | All he had to do was stroll down to Underwoods and pick up a bit of dynercaprol and potassium chloride . |
| 4 | CHOOSE YOUR TOP VIDEOS AND PICK UP A CLUTCH OF GOODIES |
| 5 | Check with your employer for exactly how much you will be entitled to receive , and pick up a copy of ‘ A Guide to Maternity Benefits ’ from the DSS . |
| 6 | Think of India or the hippy trail to Kathmandu and pick up the hint of the free-wheeling late Sixties flower-power look . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 9 | It was said that ‘ When he prayed his soul took wing for heaven and wrapt up the souls of others with him . ’ |
| 10 | Will Douglas ordered Scott of Rankilburn to go back to the now blazing village , the cottage thatches burning readily , and round up a crowd of men , women and children . |
| 11 | We must take heart from our experience in Hyde Park , we must nurture that support and build up the confidence of our members . |
| 12 | Pausing long enough at Bingen to have a coffee and look at maps , I decide it is time to abandon the Rhine for a while and cut up the valley of the river Nahe towards Idar-Oberstein and the Palatinate Forest . |
| 13 | Turn somersaults and climb up the underside of a ladder with your armour on . |
| 14 | In the United States during the 1920s , job security and internal ‘ job ladders ’ ( i.e. promotion from within the firm ) began to be introduced , it has been claimed , partly in order to differentiate ( the semi-skilled ) labour force and break up the sense of solidarity that united a firm 's workers in collective opposition to their employer — and they were to prove particularly effective in forestalling unionism ( Edwards , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 16 | She wanted to giggle ; she had expected them to be told to hold hands and summon up the spirits of the dead . |
| 17 | ‘ And when I was up in the tree , ’ she added , gazing up at him , ‘ I saw a thief climb into the Botanical Gardens and dig up a lot of bulbs and put them in a big case and go off with them ! ’ |
| 18 | I decided to go for broke , and get up a performance of my own . ’ |
| 19 | Such an organisation can campaign for better conditions for researchers , provide mutual support and advice , and talk up the importance of medical research with the public , schoolchildren , the government — and other doctors . |
| 20 | By mid-1941 , therefore , it was the prevailing view within the Board of Education that the milk-in-schools scheme was ‘ an essential part of our war food policy and not mainly a scheme to increase milk drinking and use up a surplus of liquid milk ’ ; by that time , for example , the Ministry of Food was assuming , for rationing calculation purposes , that each child was receiving five-sixths of a pint of milk per day . |
| 21 | A man who is made redundant may feel unable to tell his wife what has happened and keep up the pretence of leaving for work every day . |
| 22 | ‘ The Private Finance Initiative will provide a means to build even closer relationships with the private sector and keep up the momentum of regeneration . ’ |
| 23 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 24 | The answer is simple — make energy efficiency a number one global priority and speed up the development of renewable energy technologies . |
| 25 | Dzerzhinsky wrote that the swifter exchange of goods would help to reduce taxes levied on the peasants and so mollify them and speed up the realization of smychka between town and country ; but towards the end of the year he admitted in a resigned tone : ‘ Can such a huge enterprise like transport really change in a moment , can people really be regenerated at once ? |
| 26 | De Gaulle 's hope was that France 's withdrawal from NATO would act as a catalyst and speed up the process of change within both blocs . |
| 27 | The Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill , which aims to curb bogus applications and speed up the processing of cases , has been attacked by campaigners and a mass lobby was held outside Parliament before the debate began . |
| 28 | In this case , certain safeguards can be built into the agreement to protect the artist and speed up the accounting of money . |
| 29 | You can also create templates for often-used page formats , which perform the same task , and speed up the job of reading multiple pages . |
| 30 | Disabled applicants are encouraged to come to whichever campus they hope to study at , meet the staff from the Student Services Department and academic departments and weigh up the issues of facilities and ease of access for themselves . |