Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BLIND MAN BEATS UP A BULLYING BULL TERRIER |
| 2 | Tajan clocks up a record $3.8 million for the Haute Epoque Perrier sale |
| 3 | It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | David Skinner heads up the project team . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The floor scissors exercise is an all-rounder which stretches and tones up the abdomen and the whole of the lower body . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | a wary man tees up the rest , sneaking |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He holds up a stick for all to see . |
| 18 | He holds up a cricket bat . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | ( Holds up a limpet shell . ) |
| 21 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 22 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 23 | She holds up a Waitrose bag . |
| 24 | ‘ But this girl , this woman , she 's a woman , Laura , when we make love she puts her ’ — he holds up a finger — ‘ straight up my asshole . |
| 25 | She , too , holds up the spoon and tries to tempt me . |
| 26 | Early of Ely and Family ’ ( 1771 ) in which the richly clad Earl , the Countess and their two musical daughters sway elegantly in front of an idealised Greek temple set in their newly designed gardens while a small African boy dressed in a combination of Turkish and Indian costume holds up the Earl 's diadem , curiously peering round the Countess to look up at his owner . |
| 27 | To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection . |
| 28 | And no , I do n't think it holds up the action . |
| 29 | She came in eighth on January 6 after encountering unfavourable winds and suffering a broken forestay — part of the rigging that holds up the mast — in common with other competitors . |
| 30 | One holds up the east-west streets . |