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

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1 She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash .
2 One of Roscoe 's ideas was a windmill plough , whose sails would actually churn up the bog .
3 Even if you save and retrieve the file , it wo n't free up the memory .
4 Yes , when you erase something , it does n't free up the memory straight away .
5 Why do n't you tie up a hobby with a purely personal risk like parachuting …
6 This procedure , carried out each generation , could tie up the land indefinitely .
7 KEVIN Keegan has lodged a substantial bid for an unnamed player but wo n't tie up the deal in time for Saturday 's home game with Brighton .
8 Yeah , cos , the solder just li links into the big hole and you do n't want it cos it can screw up the size of the hole then .
9 Joe 's reducing a dislocated thumb if he can screw up the courage , and Amy 's changing a dressing .
10 ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her .
11 We might catch up a bit here .
12 Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare .
13 Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool .
14 Tomorrow they will pack up the equipment and depart , leaving that desert town as they found it , intact .
15 When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops .
16 I 'd line up a Brief if I were you . ’
17 He knew he had the tournament won , but he was so high he could n't even line up the putt .
18 You can just count up the number of rooms that you 're planning to do , ca n't you ?
19 Later on in the day I wander up to Low Force with no boat and no-one except my girlfriend and the fish trying to swim and jump up the fall for company .
20 It would dry up the flow of Japanese credit to all American borrowers , private or public .
21 One can not suddenly scale up a laboratory procedure by a thousandfold .
22 Although you can scale up the size and shape of the leaves and flowers , the huge numbers that have to be used to fill the picture mean that the overall effect is lost , and you can not appreciate the beauty of each flower as there are so many of them .
23 I will then hang up the telephone swear loudly and search out those long unused tins of AC lacquer .
24 Her fingers reached up to entwine in the clean curl of his black hair , every part of her aching shamelessly to be discovered and touched , by this one man who could whip up a storm in her heart …
25 Although the school may not be responsible for resolving these problems there are likely to be active councillors amongst the governors who , given suitable encouragement , would whip up a crusade for effective action .
26 But what ever happens at the end of the day , neither is going on the scrap heap because they are a diamond , so someone will snap up a diamond and it will retain it 's value and they will do very well .
27 Walking down Oxford Street in August , watching the tourists snap up the pirate editions of ‘ Frankie Says Arm The Unemployed ’ I decided this was the final triumph of the ‘ new pop ’ , the eclipse of content by form .
28 Police work involves so much bloody paperwork these days and a lot of boring stuff that a family row can quite spice up a night .
29 You can spice up a document by drawing straight onto it .
30 Vice-president , international operations Terry Booth will head up the operation .
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