Example sentences of "they can [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline from The Sun and get him to sign an injunction , ’ Mr Todd said .
2 THE days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline in The Sun , and get him to sign an injunction .
3 ‘ If they think they can set up a squad at three months ’ notice , they 're sadly mistaken .
4 They they can set up a pension er
5 ‘ You know what I think about this ‘ protected species ’ business , ’ he said , reshuffling the logs , ‘ I think they 're protecting all the game for themselves so they can set up a hunter 's paradise for the rich — for foreigners and high-ranking government officials .
6 In relays , each team tries to drink water in identical jugs from a spoon , until at the end they can lift up the jugs to drink .
7 1 They can brighten up the classroom and bring variety and interest into the lessons .
8 They 've got a device that sings harmonies now — next the bloody things will be writing songs for us , no doubt sponsored by Pepsi , or Coke so that they can pick up the publishing .
9 Unfortunately when other divisions come and use it they seem to think they can pick up the caravan and there 'll be a wonderful display in there
10 This year it includes a series of extravaganzas in sports centres at Omagh , Craigavon , Lisburn and Ballymena and the distribution of a booklet telling children how they can take up a sport .
11 His senior aides are convinced they can speed up the Maastricht ratification process to meet the new deadline .
12 About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan .
13 About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books .
14 ‘ Bands like the Nephilim and The Sisters do everything they can to cover up the fact that they are mortal .
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