Example sentences of "[adj] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that . |
| 2 | With Britain in the midst of a supposed punk revolution , Gedge followed this up a year later in swashbuckling style with an appearance in another G and S production , The Pirates of Penzance . |
| 3 | He followed this up a couple of years later with Sophie 's Choice opposite Meryl Streep . |
| 4 | Turn this up a bit cos my missus |
| 5 | Surely we should toughen this up a bit and say , I mean I 'm probably getting |
| 6 | I 'm also gon na open this up a bit . |
| 7 | Back at the hotel , I help him clear up the lounge bar , which still bears the debris from Andy 's last party a few months earlier . |
| 8 | Imagine the physical feeling we would experience if we were high up a ladder and began to feel it slipping , or if we had a ‘ near miss ’ in a car . |
| 9 | You can feel the leg muscles really hardening as you pedal hard up a hill . |
| 10 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 11 | ‘ Did n't I dig that up a day or two ago ? ’ |
| 12 | If you 're not going as far you 're going slower and then you take that up a level all right |
| 13 | So get it smooth , coat it with copper , polish that up a bit so it 's really nice and shiny and put a fine coating of silver over it |
| 14 | Move that up a bit so a little better . |
| 15 | Just shutting that up a bit . |
| 16 | That 's what it 's all about , I 'd like perhaps to see whether we can tie that up a bit . |
| 17 | Do you wan na chop , mu mush that up a bit ? |
| 18 | He looked beyond them to the pony and cart , then added not unkindly , ‘ You could get that up the drive . ’ |
| 19 | Well I mean I can get that up the end . |
| 20 | ‘ You are all up a bit before your time . |
| 21 | He 'd fetch us all up a cup of tea in bed with a bit of toast . ’ |
| 22 | They 're all up the creek . ’ |
| 23 | Im doing this on a PC , as opposed to me normal VDU , and for some reason the function keys are all up the spout . |
| 24 | Metal collars with long steel spikes were undoubtedly the favourite form of protection against throttling , although Punch ( 13 December 1862 ) also dreamt up ‘ great coats made a-la-porcupine … with spring daggers at the elbows and sharp spikes all up the back ’ in order to discourage attack from the rear . |
| 25 | How come you were all up the garage last night ? |
| 26 | But Chris I ca n't see them I ca n't see them making a fire like that that your heat 's gon na go all up the chimney , no way . |
| 27 | driving them all up the pole you know ! |
| 28 | The oddest call she had was from Teesside airport , where one was stuck up a drainpipe making squeaking noises . |
| 29 | When Santa got stuck up the whatsit . |
| 30 | At least it was n't stuck up the bum ! |