Example sentences of "[verb] up [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 2 | However , there is a good chance that this inexperienced Welsh side will have picked up plenty of tips from the loss . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been told you 're unhurt , but I see you 've picked up plenty of gore . |
| 4 | Apart from the fact that the breakfast was bad and the service worse and that one or two police constables appeared to be taking their holidays in the hotel , they had picked up nothing of interest . |
| 5 | Assuming that you are happy with your ability to cope with a helicopter in an unfamiliar attitude and with the mechanical soundness of your model , all you really need to do is to get the model up to a safe height , build up lots of forward speed , pull the cyclic stick back and watch it go round . |
| 6 | Picking up lots of forget-me-nots . " |
| 7 | I do n't think it 's a er maybe it 's because the background , I think , I 'm just trying to make up my mind why it loses a bit of interest , and I think what happens is , that the background being , having all this foliage which is lots of light pouring on er , all this sort of twiggery round here is er picking up lots of highlights and that tends to detract from the fairly plain shapes and smooth surfaces of the gourds . |
| 8 | Our Dry Cell Recharger project back in the September ‘ 91 issue stirred up plenty of interest amongst readers and the national press . |
| 9 | France has unquestionably built up something of a lead in this area . |
| 10 | The more she thought about it , the more her confidence ebbed away until she was ready to believe that her efforts had turned up nothing of positive help . |
| 11 | It 's worth considering three different kinds of freedom , for , put together , they may conjure up something of the stridency of the period . |
| 12 | I do n't think anybody would expect the insurance company to pick up something of that nature . |
| 13 | This is one area that I have stirred up plenty of controversy with my personal views . |
| 14 | Are you going to set up lots of projects ? |
| 15 | Make up lots of things on which to focus the mind and start the process as soon as you set off , or start , whatever task you are attempting to achieve . |
| 16 | You 're building up a knowledge base , you 're not just building up lots of odd facts like you know , how many people live in China , or |
| 17 | He explained that it was something like new party policy on homelessness and would involve a march into town piling up lots of boxes and collecting signatures on a Valentine type partition to give to Hugh . |
| 18 | Erm drive up lots of hills and |
| 19 | So he thought up lots of cool things he had done , to impress it , to show it how much he deserved the ice crown . |
| 20 | Control signals sent by subscribers down the lines to the local switch point call up whichever of the services on the main trunk line they wish , or are entitled , to receive . |
| 21 | Because the external examiners are coming into the child 's environment , they might only just walk through the school , but you 'd hope that they would pick up something of the ambience ; plus the work can be presented how the child wants to present it . |
| 22 | I mean you can whi you could go through and you can pick up lots of ones and twos that build up . |
| 23 | The Americans burn up lots of their health expenditure paying lawyers ' bills . |
| 24 | Shepherd 's Bush yielded up none of these things , unless you counted carbon monoxide as a floating mist and the people coming out of the underground station as a foaming cataract . |
| 25 | I backed up lots of my directories and then restored one or two and everything seemed OK . |
| 26 | I 'm a comparative newcomer to this computer age that many people of my generation would rather try to ignore … but you really ca n't … and as an owner of a computer and an 8 year old , I found it a good read and picked up lots of new tips on home entertainment/education as well . |