Example sentences of "and [verb] up [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To pick them up , moisten the paintbrush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point and pick up the aphids with the tip of the brush . |
| 2 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 3 | It was said that ‘ When he prayed his soul took wing for heaven and wrapt up the souls of others with him . ’ |
| 4 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 5 | The wild Colorado would flood every spring with snowmelt from its mountain headwaters , nourishing the riverbank ecosystems , and building up the waves in the big rapids to the size of three-storey houses . |
| 6 | This exercises and tones up the muscles to the side of your tummy , helping not only to improve your waistline but also to flatten your tummy . |
| 7 | Lucier stood up , with his hand spread across his breastbone as if to protect his heart from the jolt , and weighed up the possibilities of escape . |
| 8 | He could go and dig up the roadworks during the night , and get some cement made up in a small container and cement up the holes in manhole covers you used to lift the things up by . |
| 9 | So the way that we process or extr it can not just be we take a we take the information an and build up the letters by extracting the features from it because if you did that then the H and the A would come out the same both times but they do n't . |
| 10 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |
| 11 | ‘ They look to be part of a community and picking up the rules of the culture . |
| 12 | It was a long tale of low-cost facelifts , make do and mend , and cover up the cracks in a coat of Network SouthEast red , white and blue paint . |
| 13 | The students and staff were up at Sam re-painting the stones and filling up the holes in the road . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The window was full of magazines , lying edge to edge and hanging in yellowed cellophane wrappers from clothes-pegs : she was reminded of playing shop as a child , and lining up the tins of food and boxes of soap flakes and bags of flour , all in miniature . |
| 16 | Caterina and Rosalba , working at Sabina 's side in the cool of the pantry 's shade , were pinching pouches of dough to seal in the stuffing of cream cheese , pepper and chopped basil and lining up the results on a white tea towel powdered with coarse rice flour . |
| 17 | Their new LP ( their best since their first , Psychocandy ) is good for different reasons : because it has the sort of rumbling guitars and invigorating , climbing , bittersweet songs that make you jump out of bed and open up the curtains in the morning . |
| 18 | Maybe it 's a pity that people have n't lost the head a bit ; that they have n't gone berserk and showed up the authorities for what they are — I do n't know , unfeeling , inhuman , unconcerned . |
| 19 | ‘ I checked out most of Crevecoeur 's old haunts , ’ he said , consulting his memofile , ‘ and turned up the goods at Alix Micklemas ’ tattoo parlour . ’ |
| 20 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 21 | And his wife would flinch at the coarse life that harp-playing had brought her to , and go off her kipper , and mash up the remains with some potatoes for the boy 's breakfast next morning . |
| 22 | It is critical at this stage , though , that the head conveys positive messages and takes up the opportunities on offer . |
| 23 | These are the options now facing Birdland , those retrogressive bleach boys of yore ; the notorious Brummie blond bombshells who when they were n't throwing up , were trashing up hotel rooms and getting up the noses of every other band in the land . |
| 24 | She wanted to giggle ; she had expected them to be told to hold hands and summon up the spirits of the dead . |
| 25 | This is mainly dealing with the Social Fund which as you know , is erm , go undergoing changes , which means er loss of money and breaking up the fundings to twelve monthly amounts , which is creating great difficulties . |
| 26 | We have undertaken a randomised trial of elemental diet v prednisolone , to consider these points , in patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent attacks of Crohn 's disease , and followed up the patients for one year after treatment or until relapse . |
| 27 | Most of that is presently with your offices and draw up a reports in a moment , it was on special education needs , and so on . |
| 28 | They 'd gone through its pockets and piled up the contents in a heap . |
| 29 | Aggie still would not contemplate getting a mouser and when Harold raised the roof about the lethal traps she threw them out and blocked up the holes in the flooring and the wooden skirting-boards with old newspapers soaked in lavender water . |
| 30 | I do n't want us both to be telling a set of different lies , and coming up the idiots after all . |