Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another is expressing controversial opinions , so we obligingly lined up a few that focus on guitars and amps … . |
| 2 | Another is expressing controversial opinions , so we obligingly lined up a few that focus on guitars and amps … . |
| 3 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
| 4 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 5 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 6 | Somewhere along the road , she had picked up a few extra senses , and she would have to learn to live with them . |
| 7 | The car , however , had picked up a few more dents , and none of the windows existed any longer . |
| 8 | So it is n't a bad idea at this stage of the season for us to conjure up a few exercises to test receding intellectual fibre . |
| 9 | In case we do have a hard winter however , it might be worth potting up a few and over-wintering them , if you have n't already saved some of last year 's generously produced and well-ripened seed . |
| 10 | We could hang up a few politicians too. , ‘ There 's that farmer who used a plough with horses . |
| 11 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 12 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 13 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 14 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 15 | GCHQ began in 1919 as the Government Code and Cipher School ( GCCS ) , picking up the few remaining members of the army and naval teams of codebreakers who had operated in Britain during World War I. A very small team was formed , working on a tiny annual budget in MI6 's offices at 56 Broadway , in London . |
| 16 | Mala 's vigorous snort stirred up a few echoes , but no one looked around . |
| 17 | And he manages to present what could be very dry stuff with the flair of a good detective writer , setting up expectations whose fulfilment contains an element of surprise , while saving up a few clinching strokes for the end . |
| 18 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 19 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 20 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |
| 21 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 22 | All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space . |
| 23 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 24 | 9.00am Linda pops into the Savoury Delicatessen in Clapham High Street to pick up a few essential items . |
| 25 | She leaned closer and reached out , to pick up a few strands of dark hair . |
| 26 | For in the company of over 200 or so other eager enthusiasts , I was able to pick up a few interesting little pieces . |
| 27 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 29 | ‘ Scurrying round to pick up the few crumbs that fall from the table ? ’ |
| 30 | As in Chapter 2 , there will be room only to open up a few of the many possible perspectives and issues , and to suggest some ways of thinking about them . |