Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet revisionist work underlines the enormous difficulties that would have confronted even the most gifted of tsars in shoring up a rigidly conservative regime . |
| 2 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 3 | But now it was all opening up a little . |
| 4 | He drew up a very elaborate Writer 's Guide to explain what he had in mind to the authors he planned to canvass for Doctor Who . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the kitchen was being gutted and an architect friend drew up an entirely new conception for the space , involving limed Spanish oak , wrought-iron brackets ( many bought at David de Spenceley 's antiques salvage warehouse in Fulham ) and 300-watt pinpoints of light hidden in the ceiling . |
| 6 | Oh mum rings up every now and again , father is driving me batty |
| 7 | Old Aaron Kleiber built up a little tailoring business , and for a time Ruth had worked for him as a seamstress , together with Sarah Vogel , another immigrant , and Rosie O'Dell , Connor and Sean 's half-sister . |
| 8 | From these rather brief suggestions the New Critics built up a much more definite and systematic theory of the literary text , and of the relationship between text , author and reader . |
| 9 | Without legal connections and with little money , he judged that progress would be easier in the provinces and went to Manchester , where he built up a mainly civil practice until Sir David Napley , Jeremy Thorpe 's solicitor , happened to see him in action . |
| 10 | Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business . |
| 11 | He had just picked up a particularly attractive ring , when a girl 's voice said , ‘ That 's not for sale . ’ |
| 12 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 13 | one who pretends to have picked up an apparently valuable ( but actually worthless ) ring which he palms off on an unwary buyer . |
| 14 | Richie had picked up an almost invisible speck and said , ‘ I 'm just this tiny grain of sand . ’ |
| 15 | There are many repeating features in this book , and one such is Dickens ' amazing ability to conjure up the most absurd but believable characters . |
| 16 | The two laughed , but they loosened up a little . |
| 17 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 18 | Ponds of the southern and central tundra warm quickly once their ice has melted , and build up a moderately rich flora and fauna . |
| 19 | They presumably become familiar with all the small local anomalies and so build up a much more detailed magnetic map of the area they live in . |
| 20 | Street Scene is the climax of this quest , an opera that speaks with the accents of Broadway , but which holds up a typically critical and compassionate mirror to the face of his adopted city . |
| 21 | But Mel Gibson likes the treatment , which Letterman himself has had to work up a little . |
| 22 | So you did , and used up a little more time . |
| 23 | I think perhaps you 've grown up a little tonight . |
| 24 | There is also the chance of picking up a not inconsiderable amount of loot . |
| 25 | ‘ Is this all you 're putting on the Christmas cake this year ? ’ asked Mark , picking up a rather battered-looking plaster Father Christmas . |
| 26 | If programmes aiming to pick up directly beamed contact' messages from other worlds are starved of funding , what possibility is there of anyone picking up the incredibly faint traces of extraterrestrial radio leakage ? |
| 27 | Bob bent down , too , and moved discreetly about picking up the more obviously feminine articles of clothing around the floor . |
| 28 | His entrance stirred up an even larger excitement , and the crowd surged forward — Mala among them — for a closer look . |
| 29 | Methodically tearing the paper into tiny pieces , he casually strolled up the gently sloping cobbled street , looking for number eighty-two . |
| 30 | … Over the last ten years we 've built up a pretty good network . |