Example sentences of "and [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |
2 | You ask for a chair and four telephone directories and rig up an impromptu table near the only plug — and ask all your prospective clients to turn their heads around . |
3 | Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs . |
4 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
5 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
6 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
7 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |
8 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
9 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
10 | When cheques are cashed a transfer is automatically made from the deposit account to meet the payment and make up the current account to £20 . |
11 | These two lie close together , and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum . |
12 | The kick is performed by starting from a natural stance and bringing up the right leg , bent and to the side . |
13 | And obviously that you can do , but it takes time , it 's quicker just to walk into a travel agent and pick up a cheap bargain . |
14 | Now I lean forward and pick up a dead bird whose wings sag open like a fan or like the streets of Berlin under their cam nets . |
15 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
16 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
17 | The tuna fish swim beneath schools of dolphins , fishermen do not discriminate and scoop up the whole lot in their nets . |
18 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
19 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
20 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |
21 | The beauty of working on location is that so much is experienced , there is the constant interaction with the people and environment , and a constant stream of information filters into the subconscious and builds up an intuitive feeling and empathy for the country , culture and language , which ultimately influenced my drawings . |
22 | ‘ I 'm going to shower , ’ Ruth told him , getting to her feet and gathering up the dirty glasses which littered th table-top . |
23 | just lay into the bag with fast punch and kick sequences , moving around all the time and building up a good sweat . |
24 | They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region . |
25 | The hit song of the year was ‘ It 's A Long Way to Tipperaray ’ but old Ireland was singing an older song and building up a hidden army . |
26 | So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases . |
27 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
28 | The presence of ice withdraws water in vapour form from distal cells , concentrating their solutions and building up the extra-cellular crystals . |
29 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
30 | He also introduced a bleachfield to supplement the local cloth trade , and built up a local mining and coal-selling business . |