Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [noun sg] " 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 | And he 's hoping to brew up a shock for his old mates tonight . |
| 4 | ’ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Sometimes it 's helpful to write up a word so that you draw attention to the fact that its syllables form other words : island — is land ; breakfast — break fast . |
| 8 | Try to rig up a line through there and down the side of the pod . |
| 9 | Mike , who lives nearby , crawled under the floor to rig up a supply to a glass-washing machine . |
| 10 | This time , gently stretch upwards for 10 counts , trying to pull up a bit further with each count . |
| 11 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 12 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 13 | Then the professional in her broke through , and seemingly from nowhere she managed to conjure up a smile . |
| 14 | The little room seemed to conjure up a scene from the past , an almost timeless memory . |
| 15 | The trick is to use the person 's name to conjure up a picture in your mind . |
| 16 | In the UK , with only around 100 TBs on the register , the phrase ‘ that fast French aeroplane ’ is much more likely to conjure up a picture of the faithful Robin DR400 , a lovely aircraft but one which is in an altogether different class . |
| 17 | It was more difficult — and more intriguing — to conjure up a picture of her future husband , Dom João . |
| 18 | A well-known example is the motif in Schubert 's Erlkönig , which combines perfectly with the dashing octave triplets to conjure up a picture of the father 's wild gallop , with his dying son in his arms : |
| 19 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 20 | She poured some warm water from the washstand jug into the basin , tipped in a little shampoo , and began to work up a lather ; and as she worked , she talked . |
| 21 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 22 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 23 | ‘ Wow , I 'm glad you called , man , ’ said Hopper who thought his friend had telephoned to patch up a quarrel they 'd had before Fonda left for Canada . |
| 24 | Granny-Liz would always stop fanning herself to drink up a glass of iced water . |
| 25 | T. D. You might be glad to lock up a drunk to get out of the rain for a while . |
| 26 | When the union representative Alex Ross was asked by a Royal Commission whether he would " ask a woman to lock up a form ( sic ) " , he replied spontaneously , " Oh yes , they can do that as far as I understand " . |
| 27 | Everything was metal type and most things were printed off , but at least I got to learn , you know , what it is to lock up a page . |
| 28 | For instance , only 1–2 krads are need to clean up a sample using an accelerator producing 10¹5- ; 10¹8 ; rad s&sup-1 ; , but at 10&sup4 ; –10&sup5 ; rad s&sup-1 ; a higher dose is required . |
| 29 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
| 30 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |