Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you know , Derek Jefferson is one of the sponsors of this week 's tournament and one of his ploys to drum up a bit more publicity is to arrange a tour of his factory . |
| 2 | She knew that what I said was believable enough , since Vadinamia was a highly likely place for a courier to drum up a job conveying something somewhere . |
| 3 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 4 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |
| 5 | Well the problem about , er two two does include , two does include going around drumming up customers , but the difficulty with that is it seems to me that that you 'll need to drum up the customers in year one and only get the money |
| 6 | And he 's hoping to brew up a shock for his old mates tonight . |
| 7 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 8 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 9 | The sales conference , held just before the all-important Christmas run-up began , was meant to psych up the sales force for the new line . |
| 10 | He was the largest and hairiest and pimpliest and dirtiest of them all , not at all the sort of person you would wish to meet up an alley on a dark night . |
| 11 | Islander was now really beginning to clock up the miles . |
| 12 | He said that he liked to square up the week 's work . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been reared on Christmasses and New Years that deserve the label ‘ silly season ’ , when news editors scrabble among the Christmas morning swimmers and the New Year 's Eve drink statistics to cobble up a headline , but this sudden toppling of Evil Empires and establishment of Free Democracies ( poor souls ! |
| 14 | Actually we were n't too happy with the back of the old barn , because although we 'd tried to plug up every hole in the stonework , it was still possible for a determined young owl to squeeze out here and there . |
| 15 | It was only a matter of time before somebody thought of seeding Antarctic atmosphere to plug up the ozone hole . |
| 16 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 17 | To sum up the position so far : expenditure on the health services has increased substantially since the last war and with it the volume , range and quality of the health services . |
| 18 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 19 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 20 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 21 | If we attempt to sum up the character of these innovations , we must say that they are practical but unprincipled . |
| 22 | The nonchalant dismissal of the worth of Birmingham by Jane Austen 's Mrs Elton seems to sum up the attitudes of many people towards the city . |
| 23 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 24 | A traditional anecdote may be said to sum up the change that has taken place in our attitude . |
| 25 | I call the subject ‘ Jesus — our pioneer ’ because that seems to sum up the thrust of the idea . |
| 26 | On this last day I want to sum up the things we have discussed . |
| 27 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 28 | Even before the debate took place , The Times was able to sum up the situation accurately : |
| 29 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 30 | Zuwaya nearly always used ‘ Arab government ’ to compare their present unfavourably with the past , to sum up the virtues of a golden age : heroism and independence , autonomy , fraternal solidarities , an absence of hierarchy . |