Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.

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1 More in the PC Tune Up series !
2 Ha er a man on the hatch , t to tell the crane driver what to do or where to go , well you w you would have four men in the hold making up slings of timber .
3 But seneschals still itinerated when they arrived in the duchy to take up office — receiving oaths from the king-duke 's Gascon subjects and swearing a reciprocal oath to them .
4 Grandpa 's in the garden pulling up thistles .
5 On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island .
6 That has limited his appearances in top championships , which a world-beater needs in the final sharpening up process .
7 The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning .
8 Six hundred people in the business coughed up £2 10s 0d each , thereby becoming known as the Noble Six Hundred ; subsequent donations and the proceeds of Royal Variety performances meant that a nursing wing was added two years ago , and today there are 36 residents with a staff of 60 to look after them .
9 She missed the sight of Arnold padding around in the background filling up glasses and , because he was no longer there to enjoy the effect of her jokes , she had given up making them .
10 Those that have substantial incomes should not be in a position to take up houses that might otherwise be allocated to those on a lower income and Mr Mayor i as a result of this I feel that that I would urge this council , although I suspect I shall be unsuccessful , in supporting this motion .
11 Among the ideas under consideration are : — changes to bus lanes in a bid to speed up services ; — giving buses priority at traffic lights ; — contraflow bus lanes allowing public transport to travel against the main flow of traffic in a one way street ; — measures to protect bus stops from careless motorists who park illegally .
12 British Coal Enterprise Ltd has recently set up a Fast Track Loans Scheme to provide almost ‘ instant loans ’ for small businesses in a bid to speed up job creation in pit closure areas .
13 AN MP has called for immediate action to stop finance companies using ‘ blatant political scare tactics ’ in a bid to drum up business .
14 It is quite insane to imagine that you are going to sit in a restaurant adding up calories and grams of fibre .
15 With the decline in the herring fishing , followed by a complete ban on all herring catching in an endeavour to build up stocks again , the pelagic catchers turned their attentions to mackerel which hitherto had been despised as food in the North of Scotland .
16 He called for both prosecution and defence to declare their hands fully to each other before the start of a serious fraud case in an attempt to speed up proceedings .
17 Surplus crops in wheat , cotton and wool were bought up by government-financed Stabilization Corporations , in an attempt to keep up prices in these commodities .
18 At the vets in an X-RAY shows up letter three ,
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