Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your partner should be lying down on his or her back with a cushion or rolled up towel under the knees to prevent any strain in the lumbar region . |
| 2 | By reducing the angle the jet can be used as a liquid broom sweeping debris and water to a drain or pick up point . |
| 3 | The researcher has a hypothesis and sets up experiments to test it . |
| 4 | This man went out with a pouch and gathered up owl-pellets , which he labelled , and later , took apart with forceps , bathed in glass beakers of various cleansing fluids , ordering and rearranging the orts and fragments of the owl 's compressed package of bone , tooth and fur , in order to reconstitute the dead shrew or slow-worm which had run , died , and made its way through owl-gut . |
| 5 | Tod and I are feeling so terrific that we 've joined a club and taken up tennis . |
| 6 | But in a reply that summed up Ally McLeod 's capacity for humorous catastrophe the manager responded by saying , ‘ I told him several of our players smoke and it would be untruthful to back an anti-smoking campaign . ’ |
| 7 | One childless career woman described the scene when she discussed having a child and giving up work for a while . |
| 8 | ‘ Bobby McMillan assisted by Irene Neilson , rolled up his trouser legs , put on a tartan apron , scarf and beret , and squeezed a set of pipes improvised from flag pins , a pen and rolled up napkins , to demonstrate ! |
| 9 | ‘ He can sit in a bar and pick up sailors and have a wonderful time . |
| 10 | LET'S KNIFE ( Creation ) is the most bizarre thing you 'll hear all year : Nirvana meet the Shangri-Las for a dozen high energy throwaway thrash tunes with titles such as Flying Jelly Attack , Cycling Is Fun , I Am A Cat and Bear Up Bison . |
| 11 | She could not speak , indeed , it was said she had not spoken for decades , though once she had been a singer and made up songs that others learned after her and still sang . |
| 12 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 13 | In one season alone Gallacher scored 46 goals for Airdrie , striking up an almost telepathic relationship with the club 's left winger Jimmy Sommerville , a name that conjures up images of late '80s gay-disco rather than Broomfield Park in the midst of industrial depression . |
| 14 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |
| 15 | The judicial decision ended a monopoly and opened up competition not only in the provision of telecommunications services but also new developments in information technologies . |
| 16 | In use This reviewer makes no great claims to artistic merit , but is perfectly capable of following a tutorial and picking up skills . |