Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Oh shame it 's a bloke works up the bank |
| 3 | We cheer when a meerkat eats up a scorpion or a rattlesnake just for the hell of it . |
| 4 | Suppose someone in a greengrocery picks up an apple and says : Is this the fruit you mean ? |
| 5 | And when you think about it they must be illegal , cos if a shop puts up a sign saying no money refunded they are , are trying to take away your statutory rights . |
| 6 | If they ever do reveal controversial findings , as occasionally happens if a government sets up a committee to examine the activities of its predecessor , the report often merits little more attention that a small paragraph in Le Monde . |
| 7 | Indeed , for examples of foregrounding sharpening and guiding one 's reading of a text one need look no further than Blake 's own analysis : " This structure suggests that parallelism and contrast may well form important attributes of the passage " ( p. 17 ) ; " The end of each line seems a little more powerful as that pattern is disrupted " ( p. 27 ) ; " The metre used in a poem sets up an expectation on the part of the reader or listener that the pattern will be preserved throughout the poem . |
| 8 | I 'm surprised that one did n't work because I mean they 're usually hot on it , you know they know where to go and and usually there 's action taken if a councillor takes up the cause . |
| 9 | It 's not an ‘ instant ’ way of playing , whereas , especially with units like the Trace Elliot here , using a plectrum tightens up the response time in terms of attack . |
| 10 | A guy with a gun sits up the tree and waits . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ If a player flicks up the ball and tries to head it to his goalkeeper , or flicks it up for someone else to knock back , he 'll be booked for ungentlemanly conduct . ’ |
| 12 | At Newby Cote , a detached farming community on the old road , a track leads up the hillside and when it ends , its direction can be maintained by continuing upwards alongside the stream bed of Grey Wife Sike , which is normally dry . |
| 13 | Each occurrence at such a spot builds up the energy store until , after generations , it begins to be noticed more consciously . |