Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 2 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 3 | Somewhere along the road , she had picked up a few extra senses , and she would have to learn to live with them . |
| 4 | The car , however , had picked up a few more dents , and none of the windows existed any longer . |
| 5 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 6 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 7 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 8 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 9 | Oxford manager Brian Horton had drawn up a few special plans for Villa one of them was this free kick which hit the post . |
| 10 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 11 | A good example of this is the Lambeth Lesbian and Gay Group which was set up a few years ago and whose meetings I attended three or four times . |
| 12 | In fact , at most matches , they do very little at all except set up a few chants when things are a bit quiet . |
| 13 | Maxim had them set up a few yards away , thanked the boys gravely , and they sat down . |
| 14 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 15 | Conventional Hollywood thinking in the late 1930s was summed up a few years later by Raymond Moley when he was discussing the general ethics of the Production Code . |
| 16 | A tyre like a truck 's loomed up a little way away in the gloom , but it was far more knobbly than any she had seen . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 18 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 19 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 20 | And their third album , which is actually untitled , should do even better now that they have notched up a few hit singles to go along with the hit album . |
| 21 | If my son and my daughter have n't taken up the same interest in art that I have , I see no reason that they should have , and I see no reason to tell them they ought to study this or they ought to do that . |
| 22 | Government and national accounts business unit manager Stewart Oldroyd , claimed that the company has already signed up a few orders prior to the official release , the most significant of which is with the National Bank of Hungary . |
| 23 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 24 | Just put up a few pictures and so on . |
| 25 | And an RUC Special Branch officer had been beaten up a few weeks previously after going to meet his UFF informer in Belfast 's York Road district . |
| 26 | She had cleared up a few worrying points about William Egan . |
| 27 | The Yalta agreement of February 1945 had already enshrined the right of the Soviets to retain their forward positions in Eastern Europe and the Potsdam conference later that year further divided up the former Third Reich . |
| 28 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 29 | There are garden centres — and for the most part , they will be attached to nurseries where the plants are propagated and grown , not just bought in wholesale — where ‘ container grown ’ really does mean grown in a container , and not potted up a few days beforehand . |