Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I had already picked up quite a lot about ‘ Lucky ’ Lucan and what had happened . |
| 2 | It had picked up quite a bit of loose weed which kept jamming in the top ring , but this was periodically removed by Mr Gardner who , by now , knew I had a good fish on and had been warned that any foul-ups at the net would seriously hinder his future fathering capabilities . |
| 3 | ROCK star Elton John 's prized £400,000 Jaguar sports car has been smashed up just a month after it was delivered . |
| 4 | Thatcher 's administration eventually wound up both the PAR system and CPRS . |
| 5 | He seems to have grown up rather a solitary boy , and afterwards not by nature a businessman — unlike his brother , who quickly outstripped him in enterprise , property , and prosperity . |
| 6 | Trade union de-recognition is having effect of reducing the solidarity of workers and of reducing rights built up over a hundred years of trade union movement . |
| 7 | Together they have built up quite a following of devotees for their special brand of banter , interspersed with gems of gardening knowhow and Harry 's infamous groan-inducing puns . |
| 8 | However , far from being tied to his desk , Harry has built up quite a reputation as a roving reporter . |
| 9 | I had even built up quite a good knowledge of medical terms . |
| 10 | Now , there was this Greek fellow called Archimedes , who had built up quite a reputation for himself . |
| 11 | ‘ We lost a lot of custom that night , especially as we have built up quite a good reputation . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been sifting through my daily routine and I 've turned up quite a handsome collection of finely-wrought deceits cultivated over the years . |
| 13 | I seem to have stirred up quite a hornets ' nest . |
| 14 | When determining their poll tax levies , districts were thus faced with already agreed demands from the counties , and their own precepts actually made up only a small proportion of the total amount community charge payers were required to pay . |
| 15 | ( They may have puffed up quite a bit . ) |
| 16 | Answer guide : In the former case an invoice for the goods or services supplied has been received whereas in the latter no invoice has been received at the time the accounts are drawn up therefore an estimate of the amount owing for the goods or services provided is made . |
| 17 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 18 | ‘ But I will always stand by him , whether he is right or wrong — in this case I think he was tucked up just a bit . ’ |
| 19 | After knocking off her old man , Jessamyn rose through the ranks in the Psychopomps , and racked up quite a score . |
| 20 | He says Tory hardman Norman Tebbit was ‘ roughed up quite a few times ’ by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 21 | Certain children , whose names were on a list , were called up once a day to be given yellow capsules which had to be swallowed in front of the teacher . |
| 22 | Labour Councillors have set up over a hundred new Council Committee meetings , an extra six hundred meetings a year , and the hundreds of thousands of pounds that is gon na cost the people of , not the community charge payers , not the community charge payers , but those people , the elderly and the handicapped who are looking for services from this Authority , which the Labour Group will say , we ca n't afford to provide cos the Government does n't send us enough money . |
| 23 | A credit for interest owed would not normally have been set up so the interest would be debited to the nominal account shown , which will then merely be transferred into the revenue account : |
| 24 | David St John Thomas , celebrant of the English country station , has summed up eloquently the multiplicity of functions the country station performed : |
| 25 | Alex Salmond , Margaret Ewing and Andrew Welsh , you can be sure , will have weighed up carefully the predictable uproar and have decided that the obtaining , with only three votes , of such a sensible and important concession for Scotland from the Government is , in fact , a considerable achievement . |
| 26 | Tony Mason , who has weighed up both the composition and the behaviour of Victorian and Edwardian football crowds as carefully as the sketchy evidence permits , suggests that skilled workers were disproportionately dominant within the crowd . |
| 27 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 28 | And er we were all brought up there the whole lot of us and I think I was about fifteen when I left there . |
| 29 | Oh there are no , you know with the gaff this time , a lot of work like during the week and that and we 've tightened up quite a bit and tried to you know , get ourselves organised . |
| 30 | He was rounded up about a week later , having stolen four more vehicles . |