Example sentences of "[noun sg] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if you 've got a mouse you could actually help speed up a lot of this editing but , I said , I 've not written in the mouse commands into this schedule because we did n't actually have mice on all work stations when this was written . |
| 2 | cut his card up a bit more . |
| 3 | Manchester-based Leonard Curties and Partners are busy drawing up a report on the club 's financial affairs before attempting to finalise the sale next year for a fee of around £1.3 million . |
| 4 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 5 | Such activities may spontaneously develop ideas of the degree of push needed to get a car up a slope with cries of , ‘ Push harder — that was too gentle ! ’ |
| 6 | If you 'd made your mind up a bit earlier instead of farting about . |
| 7 | I 'm not talking about shoving a prick up a five-year-old , which is beastly , or years of sexual dominance , but just a little playing around ? ’ |
| 8 | I have retarded the ignition to run on lead-free , but find that the vehicle is an uncertain starter and will not achieve 50 mph in third gear up an incline . |
| 9 | ‘ People said I was brave setting up a company at such a time , ’ recalls Mr Chambers , adding ‘ Brave ’ is a back-handed way of saying ‘ You 're mad ’ . ’ |
| 10 | Treaty by setting up a company within the meaning of article 58 , whereas in this case the very right of nationals of other member states to take part in the setting up a company in the United Kingdom is restricted by the residence requirement . |
| 11 | Then , abruptly , for the following day and a half there was neither sand nor palm trees , just a thirty-mile climb up a canyon of broken slate and rock . |
| 12 | I 'd better try to tidy my desk up a bit . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You canny shove your granny up a bus ! ’ |
| 14 | No , a pick up a penguin |
| 15 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 16 | All you have to do to compete is pick up an entry form , match Italian cities to specified colours on the map , and use your nous to come up with a pithy advertising slogan for Rowney 's Designer Gouache . |
| 17 | Dee had just opened the two-litre engine up a bit on a dual carriageway and realized how quick the car was . |
| 18 | I went into the garden and I found the cat up a tree . |
| 19 | But the commissioned research does flag up a number of interesting pointers to building a bigger core support . |
| 20 | Just realised that Gavin is at a conference today so it 's up to me to type up a report . |
| 21 | ( Incidentally , a comment in the Promontoire hut book by the last British party to note their presence a year ago recorded laconically , the rewards for following Brailsford and Collomb in their first choice route to the hut up a series of Grade II chimneys : the last pitch is the drain for the outside toilet ! ) . |
| 22 | It is quite difficult cutting up a partridge when your elbows are glued to your ribs . |
| 23 | Projet de Gauche and Projet de Droite ( e1 and E2 5b respectively ) push the grade up a bit and , like the excellent Excelsior ( E25c,5c ) , both finish with tricky walls . |
| 24 | ‘ Look , Dorothy , I hired you because I thought you might shake the place up a bit , so if you are unhappy here , that 's at least partly my fault . |
| 25 | But when she had asked if they could n't warm the place up a bit with some pretty colors , Dr. Briant had said sharply that they had to avoid confusing their color appreciation tests later , and she 'd have all the color she wanted then . |
| 26 | Might freshen the place up a bit , thought Nelly , stepping out into the storm . |
| 27 | We usually have to queue up in the rain because Mr Barnes — our ‘ Supa-Tuta ’ — keeps the door locked until his arrival , to prevent vandalism ( although there are those who think that a spot of creative vandalism would smarten the place up a bit ! ) . |
| 28 | But he could n't enlighten them : he only had orders to ‘ paint the place up a bit ’ . |
| 29 | He would walk in a day before a College hop and say , ‘ Good heavens : We must tart the place up a bit . |
| 30 | ‘ Tidy this place up a bit , will you ? ’ |