Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] up [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The time was now about nine-thirty , and I must have looked ghastly , for a young nurse who popped in with a set of pyjamas sized up the situation in a second and popped out again , running down the corridor calling for help . |
2 | Occasional regattas liven up the local sailing . |
3 | It 's very important that when parents split up the child has the opportunity to know where both parents are living and how to keep in touch with both of them . |
4 | I put this on the agenda erm the phrase at the moment seems to be flagging things up and my concern is opposite Dave is the but as everybody I 'm sure is aware we 've got erm divisional A L O's based within as Crime Prevention Officers , the main concern for my particular area is Bill although based at has actually for the last three years built up a good working relationship and inspected staff from and . |
5 | As people went to the polls in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in northern Bosnia , bulldozers cleared away the remains of two 16th-century mosques blown up the previous week . |
6 | In one instance , a pupil 's dissertation was " lost " through an operating error but a number of pupils divided up the work , which was in final draft , took it to the computer room and keyed in the text in sections . |
7 | The thieves hooked up the green and cream Piper Clubman to their vehicle and drove it away . |
8 | The Yanks did n't even bother to screen it , but we Brits lapped up the handlebar-moustachioed plotting and a-planning of David McCallum and Robert Wagner , not to mention the dastardly swagger of Nazi stereotype Anthony Valentine , who became a sex symbol . |