Example sentences of "[noun pl] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the
2 And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them .
3 So one person will do the bandage on the elbow and the other person with the good looking knees , you 'll be the casualty for where you 've got to put the knee bandage on , cos you wo n't , if you do n't roll your trousers up a bit you 're not going to have much bandage to do much bandaging with on the knee , okay , so decide amongst yourselves who 's got the good looking knee
4 ‘ Certainly , Sir , ’ I replied , ‘ that 's why I am here , to cheer things up a bit ! ’
5 ‘ Liven things up a bit , I suppose , ’ said Henry .
6 When the process of ‘ waking things up a bit ’ commences , reputations , and records of attendances at police court , are made and broken every day .
7 To liven things up a bit and stimulate rivalry , it was decided in 1882 that one team should wear tall black hats and the other tall white ones .
8 What it needs is an historian who is n't afraid to jazz things up a bit — sidestep the facts and move the goalposts .
9 The amateur stuff loosens things up a bit
10 To the extent that the amateur stuff loosens things up a bit , it ca n't help but in some sense be positive . ’
11 The other use of TPI is to build proper computer integrated telephony ( CIT ) applications , and Sun 's entry into this swiftly growing market should shake things up a bit .
12 A well known joker thought he would liven things up a bit .
13 Brighten things up a bit .
14 Then between us possibly we could begin to stir things up a bit . ’
15 Shouts for a penalty for Leeds after a handball early on were ignored — a pity , since a goal then would have livened things up a bit .
16 Mm , will that mess things up a bit for you ?
17 really hate is when you 're on a crowded train and you 're all getting on the train and someone else who 's getting off lights up a cigarette and
18 3 Eddie climbed 38 metres up a tree that was 53 metres high .
19 I was gon na say as I recollect I did n't see much wrong with it that I would disagree with erm I think it 's nice to see , you know , sort of progress seems to be going on and erm er what I would say is sort of it might be a good idea to sort of line the numbers up a bit more but erm
20 At this point I would like to say how great Steffi Graf is , and how her loyalty to her fans , and genuine great attitude to the game shows up the likes of Monica Seles .
21 This means that , if trains took coal from a mine 10 kilometres up a branch line to a power station 100 km away , the model would expect only 10 per cent of the revenue to be lost if the branch line were closed .
22 ONE SUMMER in 1920 , while staying with the Morells at Garsington , the late Percy Feilding went for a drive around Oxfordshire , and miles up a cart track , purely by chance , he found Beckley .
23 One is she 's very interested in the occult , erm , she actually practices tarot card readings , and what she calls the crystal oracle , and she gave me a brief explanation , which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er , but I 'm not going to push me
24 ‘ There were claw marks up the bank side where the badgers had been trying to get out . ’
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