Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 3 | If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores . |
| 4 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 5 | Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is . |
| 6 | But however mixed up the plot may be , there 's no doubting the strength of the music : |
| 7 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 8 | As you know , Derek Jefferson is one of the sponsors of this week 's tournament and one of his ploys to drum up a bit more publicity is to arrange a tour of his factory . |
| 9 | She knew that what I said was believable enough , since Vadinamia was a highly likely place for a courier to drum up a job conveying something somewhere . |
| 10 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 11 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |
| 12 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 13 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 14 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 15 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the United States carried out a series of crisis measures apparently aimed at shoring up the dollar . |
| 17 | On the other , he could have devoted his energies to shoring up the regime 's prestige , authority and ability to maintain order . |
| 18 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 19 | But I could have them send up a tray if you 'd rather stay in bed . ’ |
| 20 | send up the survey to old Hughey , he , he 'll give you a few . |
| 21 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 22 | Well we 've had all this trauma about you know , cos I do you , where do you want the he said well do n't see much of daddy or nan and granddad and nana and granddad said they moved in on Christmas Day stay here and Rachael and Steven would n't come up , stay here on Christmas Day , it 's quite likely , quite likely to go with daddy he said but , in many ways I he said I know what we can do is when we send up the chimney we could put nanny 's address , nanny 's address on it , shall we ? |
| 23 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 24 | Dougal levered up the rectangle of hardwood . |
| 25 | And he 's hoping to brew up a shock for his old mates tonight . |
| 26 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 27 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 28 | OPENING UP A FLUE |
| 29 | NATO will now plan opening up a land corridor to the beleaguered city of Sarajevo for armed relief convoys . |
| 30 | This account of normalisation focuses on opening up a range of life-style opportunities which are available to the rest of the population but which have tended to be closed to people with learning difficulties . |