Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time was now about nine-thirty , and I must have looked ghastly , for a young nurse who popped in with a set of pyjamas sized up the situation in a second and popped out again , running down the corridor calling for help . |
| 2 | Not like doing it by remote control , having Jem set up a trip-wire . |
| 3 | Occasional regattas liven up the local sailing . |
| 4 | The superintendent folded up a chapati . |
| 5 | Wickham bounded up the last flight , shirt-sleeved , jacket in hand . |
| 6 | But the ambience called up the shades of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gaugin , and of Mimi , and these began to work their fermentation in my imagination . |
| 7 | Plugged into your stereo , the lighting effect , which is multi-coloured and does pulsate , is fun in a dark room , especially when there 's a lot of bass , and might liven up a party . |
| 8 | It 's very important that when parents split up the child has the opportunity to know where both parents are living and how to keep in touch with both of them . |
| 9 | I put this on the agenda erm the phrase at the moment seems to be flagging things up and my concern is opposite Dave is the but as everybody I 'm sure is aware we 've got erm divisional A L O's based within as Crime Prevention Officers , the main concern for my particular area is Bill although based at has actually for the last three years built up a good working relationship and inspected staff from and . |
| 10 | Another statistic in the joyriding craze ; a stolen Astra driven up the M5 at 100 mph , then crashed into this oncoming car . |
| 11 | For more than two hours , the band who are without question the biggest rock outfit on the globe at present lit up the Dublin sky with a breathtaking assault on the senses . |
| 12 | Then , still smiling , Isambard forced the boy 's wrists together , enclosed and held them mercilessly in one lean , muscular hand , and with the other picked up the dagger and tossed it after his own sword . |
| 13 | Only then had the BBC followed up the statement , saying baldly that the Deputy Fuhrer had parachuted into Scotland . |
| 14 | LENNOX LEWIS last night lined up a world title fight with Norwich-based Herbie Hide as the cat-and-mouse game over the heavyweight championship took a new twist . |
| 15 | As people went to the polls in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in northern Bosnia , bulldozers cleared away the remains of two 16th-century mosques blown up the previous week . |
| 16 | And viewers on both sides of the globe lapped up every sugary second to the dream story-line as the ratings soared . |
| 17 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 18 | your mum 's got her fanny stuck up the exhaust of it . |
| 19 | He was a man brought up a bus ride away from Taibach , a word-clotted surreal dark comedy Welshman whom Burton adored . |
| 20 | Penry propped up the pillows behind her , then opened the bag he 'd brought with him and took out a small torch . |
| 21 | And his hand picked up a dropped boot to hurl it against the crackling plastic doors . |
| 22 | After the door closed , a pudgy hand picked up the videotape gingerly as if it were a dead bird and , pausing for a moment so that the viewer could read ‘ GOVERNMENT DRUGS SCANDAL ’ , dropped it into a wastepaper bin . |
| 23 | The soft white animal-like hand picked up the baton again . |
| 24 | In one instance , a pupil 's dissertation was " lost " through an operating error but a number of pupils divided up the work , which was in final draft , took it to the computer room and keyed in the text in sections . |
| 25 | Clara 's contingent sized up the situation in a disappointed trice , and hunched itself together in a corner to confront the disorderly scene by a solid front of backs . |
| 26 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |
| 27 | An eager public lapped up the vital evidence . |
| 28 | Heather even said it was the most interesting service she 'd been too , and I think Mum and Dad lapped up the excitement and atmosphere of celebration in the packed church — a far cry from Dalseattie ! |
| 29 | The dying ripples of its massive tidal wave lapped up the English Channel , and the volcanic debris , wreathing the planet , altered weather and harvest patterns around the world for years afterwards . |
| 30 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |