Example sentences of "and [vb base] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs . |
| 3 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
| 4 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These two lie close together , and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
| 13 | and and erm a and build up a little bit of er text on just how good we are , and what we can produce , and how well equipped we are . |
| 14 | If you are going to be away from work for a period in the future , you will have to pay the full rate when you return to paid employment , so it might be as well to start now , and build up the maximum benefit . |
| 15 | Chairman Reacher , who admitted last weekend that he had already started contemplating life without Brian , added : ‘ We are going to get this club back on the rails and climb up the Premier League . |
| 16 | I scramble down a muddy , leaf-littered bank and into a chilly stream at the bottom ; it flows over one boot and I whisper , ‘ Shit ’ and squelch up the far bank , holding onto the cold branches of bushes and the mud-slimy roots of trees . |
| 17 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 18 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 19 | I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates . |
| 20 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 21 | try and speak up a little bit because we 've still got the tapes going . |
| 22 | Working on entirely different design principles , each successfully publicised their stunters to capture public attention in the mid 1970s and open up a new wave of enthusiasm . |
| 23 | Answer guide : Reduce the bank column by £100 and open up a new asset column for the new asset , a desk , and put £100 in that column . |
| 24 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |
| 25 | At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on ! |
| 26 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 27 | Occasionally , they kill soldiers , and blow up the odd bridge or a railway line , but essentially they are an impotent and marginal force currently engaged in peace talks with the military . |
| 28 | COUNCILLORS in Wrexham Maelor are to undertake a survey of trees in the area and draw up a firm policy on tree protection . |
| 29 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 30 | Remove the boxes and Plasticine , and tidy up the rough edges , using a craft knife . |