Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Allen v. Jarvis ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 Ch.App. 616 a solicitor-executor drew up a bill of costs amounting to £691 and paid himself out of the testator 's assets . |
| 2 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 3 | If ever a sentence summed up the gale of change that is blasting through Yorkshire cricket this season it is that one . |
| 4 | They pause , watching her long walk across the grass , a supplicant walking up the cathedral nave , she has a sense of awe , her hands are cold and damp in spite of the heat . |
| 5 | I do n't know , maybe they erm a , they 'll listen to the tapes and they probably sample some of the words into a computer to build up a database of words that probably like you said , oh he 's getting a lot of jip from his boss , you know , is probably not in the dictionary but if a lot of people said that word then they would . |
| 6 | My master read these through carefully like a clerk marking up a ledger . |
| 7 | Cheshire Railtours are planning a rail tour up the WCML to Carlisle and return via the S & C on Saturday 17th April 1993 , cost £20 . |
| 8 | An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’ |
| 9 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 10 | Merchants came next , men and women , then a prostitute ; a beggar brought up the rear , these allegorical figures representing the inescapable gradations of decay . |
| 11 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 12 | Nearly half of the episcopal hierarchy refused the new oaths , and as a result opened up a schism in the Anglican Church . |
| 13 | She knew that what I said was believable enough , since Vadinamia was a highly likely place for a courier to drum up a job conveying something somewhere . |
| 14 | Some late night joy-riding fool of a soldier ripping up the beach with his big truck tyres ? |
| 15 | The question was left open in Davies v Flackett [ 1973 ] RTR 8 , where the accused drove off without paying from a car park while a stranger held up the barrier . |
| 16 | I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul-de-sac and smashing my hand . |
| 17 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 18 | At one point , a flare lit up the night sky . |
| 19 | A flare lit up the sky as Taff was talking , casting eerie shadows among the trees . |
| 20 | This money was initially paid out to distributors as a stimulus to set up a network of satellite producers but , after the corporation had trouble recovering the £3 million invested in Korda 's British Lion , money was directed into individual projects which they thought had commercial potential , as the percentage of the budget ( usually 30 per cent ) that could n't be raised from a distributor . |
| 21 | Dispersion : This is the ability of a detergent to break up a body of dirt into fine particles . |
| 22 | Perhaps the accidental resemblance of a video in its box to a book in its dust-jacket will lead a child to pick up a book by mistake , thinking it to be a video , and start reading . |
| 23 | Now , we 're working on language , now , but because a question turns up every year on paper one , to do with education , we 're going to be considering education , and we 're going to consider education in the broadest possible way , and that is , how do we know things . |
| 24 | And a star-shell lit up the winter night sky … |
| 25 | Wherever there 's a cop beating up a guy , I 'll be there . |
| 26 | It was to take a year and a half to build up the momentum for the Hot Autumn . |
| 27 | Oh shame it 's a bloke works up the bank |
| 28 | Jonathon Pendrous ; by day a cleaner clearing up the stage after other peoples ' glory , but by night when the actors have gone home , and the audience has left the theatre to its ghostly past … |
| 29 | Guatemala 's Minister of Energy and Mines has announced a plan to set up a series of solar generating stations in rural areas currently without electricity , and similar initiatives are being considered by the governments of El Salvador and Panama . |
| 30 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |