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

No	Sentence
1	So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " .
2	Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of :
3	I bring up the subject of music .
4	I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths .
5	This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary .
6	‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one .
7	Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six .
8	I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen .
9	In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket .
10	I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it .
11	I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it .
12	I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties .
13	I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew .
14	On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter .
15	I drew up a form with these headings and time was calibrated in fifteen minute interval boxes which , by the use of a marking code , could also show five minute intervals .
16	I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside .
17	I fixed up an interview with him .
18	I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer .
19	I woke up a couple of hours later .
20	And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed .
21	‘ I shall definitely think twice before I put up a sign like this again . ’
22	I walk up a flight of steps , carpeted with discarded copies of a give-away magazine called Ms London , into Waterloo railway station .
23	Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley
24	I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide .
25	One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain .
26	Now I had the hang of it , I racked up a handful of top to bottoms with plenty of vertical .
27	As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness .
28	I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
29	I turned up a couple of minutes early , found the door into the suite ajar and the sitting-room in darkness .
30	I turned up the collar of my fake biker 's jacket and walked off .