Example sentences of "[verb] up another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite poor trading , the bank stumped up another £70,000 for a second premises in Chelsea last year . |
| 2 | Apparently impervious to Luke 's quick frown , he drew up another chair . |
| 3 | Finally , I have just picked up another item on railway laws : — |
| 4 | PICKED UP another £30,000 for sabbaticals — study leave — that he did not take . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'd 've let me know , ’ he said , picking up another splinter of pheasant . |
| 6 | It was n't until I heard Dennis say , ‘ I 'll just fetch up another bottle of the Hunter Valley ’ that it was borne in on me that the woman who was frenching me and bringing herself off on my belt buckle was none other than Karen Parsons , the wife of Dennis Parsons , who was currently six feet away on the other side of the dining-room door and closing rapidly . |
| 7 | One of the boys bangs the seat right behind my head urgently , and indicates that I should stop to pick up another couple of young warriors . |
| 8 | Today they 're preparing to drive back to their tented barracks on the coast in Split , to pick up another consignment of supplies . |
| 9 | A sharp blow hit her between the shoulder blades and she wheeled round to see the woman who had spat at her leaning down to pick up another stone . |
| 10 | He was using my car to pick up another girlfriend at the airport . |
| 11 | The day after she came I put up another roll of chicken wire . ’ |
| 12 | Cor blimey , I put up another spell . |
| 13 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 14 | Wilkins ' response was to set up another mill only a few hundred yards away , this time using steam power . |
| 15 | In 1825 he induced the then foreign minister , the comte de Damas , to experiment with an essay competition as a means of choosing the most able young attachés for promotion to secretary of embassy or legation ; and in 1830 the Prince de Polignac , who had succeeded Damas , was persuaded to set up another training course . |
| 16 | Dennis squeaked up another couple of steps . |
| 17 | Asked last year what he would do about the loss of his top stars , Grigorovich said defiantly : ‘ If the stars leave we will bring up another generation , and when they go , we will bring up another . ’ |
| 18 | He says he would never have been able to have afforded it himself , so it opened up another world . |
| 19 | Corporatist theory opened up another area in which democratic elitism queried standard pluralist reasoning about an open and competitive interest group universe ( see pp. 129 — 30 ) . |
| 20 | Even though it says it 's free for you to do it , they 'll still ring up another number |
| 21 | He had been hiding out , sleeping rough , until three days ago when he arrived in Paris to look up another man indebted to him . |
| 22 | The developments in techniques for both sound and video recording have opened up another world of data to ethnomethodologists ( and , for that matter , to all sociologists ) . |
| 23 | We are drawing up another list which includes ICL and Sun . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Is n't that great ? ’ said Patrick , drawing up another chair and sitting down . |
| 25 | Coyle signs up another Scot |
| 26 | Jump the gap and make your way down the steps and platforms to another ladder , pick up another crate to your left and climb down the ladder , kill the workman and run right ( out of the building ) , get on the lift and jump into the little room ( this contains a couple of records ) , get the crate and climb up the ladder to kill the last workman , get on the lift to your left and go to the top , jump onto the platform , and the next , and the next , until you reach the furthest one where there 's an extra life . |
| 27 | We continue on heading until we pick up another waypoint , the particular shape of a section of the B1052 , where a very sharp right-hand bend is followed almost immediately by a minor road off to the east and a small hamlet , Brinkley , further north ( J ) . |
| 28 | Referring to Christ 's teaching in John 10 that he is the good shepherd and the door to the sheepfold through which alone salvation lies so that anyone " that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold , but climbeth up another way , the same is a thief and a robber " , Hilton remarks that anyone who thinks they can bypass the way of darkness is such a " a breker of wal " ( 27.97r. – 245 ) . |
| 29 | I think she 's on the point of kicking up another fuss , when one of the Hospitality team slips in with cakes and glasses of lemon tea . |
| 30 | Banks involved with London 's Canary Wharf project agreed in principle to put up another £500m ( $186m ) to get the project back on the road again — under their ownership . |