Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas , they had no high chairs for nine month old Daniel , and it was with a sinking heart that I picked up the menu , while trying to hold the baby and prevent toddler Michael from pulling off the tablecloth . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 3 | The Moon was so angry with the hare 's evasions that she picked up a hatchet to chop off his head , but missed her aim and cut the hare on the mouth . |
| 4 | Less than 48 hours after the world No.1 had lifted her third French Open title , doctors in Paris revealed that she picked up the injury towards the end of her quarter-final win over Jennifer Capriati . |
| 5 | That piece of information shook her so much that she put up no resistance to being led off , except to say , ‘ Where are we going ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I recall that you brought up the suggestion and positively hammered at it . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes the skilled were actually a species of sub-contractor , paid by output , who hired their unskilled assistants at a flat time-wage and saw to it that they kept up the pace . |
| 8 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 9 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 10 | It 's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one . |
| 11 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |
| 12 | During this time he developed an interest in art , to such an extent that he gave up the security of work in 1846 . |
| 13 | Such was his disillusionment that he gave up the practice of medicine for a while and supported himself and his growing family by undertaking translation work , at the same time pursuing his chemical and botanical studies . |
| 14 | ‘ YOU 'VE got to get rid of the males , ’ David Gardner said with such fierce determination that he conjured up an image of concentration camps for male hops in remote parts of Kent . |
| 15 | It came to him , just like a flash of lightning and he was so excited that he picked up the telephone and rang Dennis Hopper in Los Angeles . |
| 16 | Giving evidence , Capt von Humbracht said that he picked up the uniform , hat and sword belonging to Napoleon which lay on the ground . |
| 17 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 18 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |