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

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1 The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year .
2 ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it .
3 If there was no correlation , well you 'd expect them to be mixed up a bit so that negatives might occur with negatives or they might occur with positives vice-versa Now , I 'm g try and give you a feel for how these numbers , how we work out the correlation coefficient in terms of Z scores .
4 Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse .
5 Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is .
6 The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness .
7 But however mixed up the plot may be , there 's no doubting the strength of the music :
8 If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole .
9 The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her .
10 Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue .
11 I reckon Christmas is cracked up a lot more than it it 's made out to be .
12 Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address .
13 I just wish they had n't boarded up the windows .
14 Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase .
15 The west façade , flanked by two towers , is approached up a flight of steep steps into a magnificent , open narthex ( 1178 ) where is situated the west portal .
16 Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year .
17 Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you .
18 Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ?
19 Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales .
20 seems to have come up a bit .
21 It 's interesting that team briefing thing on there , because that 's come up a couple of times recently , people have mentioned about erm team briefing as a sort of management system .
22 The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane .
23 Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way .
24 NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in .
25 This linguistic strategy would not work if the term Americans automatically conjured up a picture of women .
26 And like a magician he 's conjured up the spirit to keep going after horrific abuse .
27 Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize .
28 The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger .
29 God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area .
30 a terrible ‘ Ow ’ — or totally good — a beautiful ‘ Mm ’ — and when distress is relieved it may well be as if they themselves have conjured up the goodness .
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