Example sentences of "i [vb base] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 2 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
| 3 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 6 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 7 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 8 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 9 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 10 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 11 | ‘ I shall definitely think twice before I put up a sign like this again . ’ |
| 12 | I walk up a flight of steps , carpeted with discarded copies of a give-away magazine called Ms London , into Waterloo railway station . |
| 13 | I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide . |
| 14 | One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain . |
| 15 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 16 | About six months ago I set up a 48″ × 15″ × 12″ tank for African cichlids . |
| 17 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 18 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 19 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 20 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 21 | In his own defence Harris told Garrett , ‘ I ring up a director at 2 o'clock in the morning to discuss a scene . |
| 22 | I roll up the sleeves of my crisp white shirt , because old thought is dusty stuff . |
| 23 | See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’ |
| 24 | And tha that is one thing I 'm , I mean I 'm not I 'm not the best driver in the world , but that is one thing I do try not to do cos as you say no matter what the circumstances are , if I go up the back of somebody it is my fault . |
| 25 | When it has gone completely , I venture up a flight of stairs in my bare feet to the phone box . |
| 26 | I steam up the platform after him , knowing Des can block him the other side . |