Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And the fella that was on it named has , lives up the Goldfinks , he , he 's still alive .
2 Cradle swings for younger children would be made of rubberised material and those for older children would have hand grips up the ropes .
3 BLIND MAN BEATS UP A BULLYING BULL TERRIER
4 Tajan clocks up a record $3.8 million for the Haute Epoque Perrier sale
5 It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! !
6 He heads up the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau ( phone 071–928 4488 ) , which was set up in 1981 and which provides an independent service for the resolution of disputes between personal insurance policyholders and holders of unit trusts , and companies that belong to the scheme .
7 David Skinner heads up the project team .
8 After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill .
9 On April 5 Manx Airlines , based on the Isle of Man , starts up a Stansted to Waterford daily link .
10 Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket application programming interface and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system .
11 Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket API and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system .
12 I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before .
13 So I suggest the secretary rings up the secretary of Fenners do n't say you 're listed in newspapers cos industrial people do n't like that but have a word with Fenners and they 'll tell you what 's gone on .
14 Put them in now , before autumn gales and winter blasts make the plants rock at their roots , and frost loosens up the soil to compound the damage .
15 It , as I said earlier , really just looks up a table of data values , numerical values , and comes up with an answer and you ca n't question it , you ca n't ask it why did you get that particular answer .
16 The floor scissors exercise is an all-rounder which stretches and tones up the abdomen and the whole of the lower body .
17 But , because it tones up the muscles and firms the body , you may well lose inches .
18 This exercises and tones up the muscles to the side of your tummy , helping not only to improve your waistline but also to flatten your tummy .
19 But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) .
20 One adds up the probabilities for all the particle histories with certain properties , such as passing through certain points at certain times .
21 Thus if a defective toaster catches fire damaging the house and contents , one adds up the value of the damage done ( but not including either the toaster itself or any property used mainly for business purposes , e.g. a word processor ) .
22 To calculate the probability of finding a real space-time with some certain property , such as looking the same at every point and in every direction , one adds up the waves associated with all the histories that have that property .
23 And the only other staff seems to be that young fellow in the kiosk , and I rather think he 's working for peanuts while he mugs up a thesis . ’
24 a wary man tees up the rest , sneaking
25 Above top : Geoff Yeadon counts up the empties .
26 It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes .
27 She holds up a sepia portrait of a turn of the century belle in a high-necked Russian blouse , standing before the backdrop of a painted Arcadia , with balustrades and beckoning groves .
28 He holds up a stick for all to see .
29 He holds up a cricket bat .
30 In Beverly Hills Cop , Eddie Murphy holds up a pack of Lucky Strikes and says ‘ These cigarettes are very popular with the children ’ ; and in ‘ Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? ’ detective Eddie Valiant is offered Lucky Strike cigarettes by a teenage boy and Camel cigarettes by the cartoon character Betty Boop ( Tobacco & Youth Reporter , Spring 1989 ) .
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