Example sentences of "[verb] up something 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 | France has unquestionably built up something of a lead in this area . |
| 3 | It 's worth considering three different kinds of freedom , for , put together , they may conjure up something of the stridency of the period . |
| 4 | I do n't think anybody would expect the insurance company to pick up something of that nature . |
| 5 | 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 . |