Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 2 | Specialized in throwing bricks through Jewish shop-windows , heckling leftist speakers , beat up a couple of Liberal Members of Parliament . |
| 3 | It 's interesting that team briefing thing on there , because that 's come up a couple of times recently , people have mentioned about erm team briefing as a sort of management system . |
| 4 | I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew . |
| 5 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Erm , two er three points would I like , erm , picking up a couple of comments earlier , and coming back to a , I think if we use a cricketing analogy , a long hop I 'd like to bowl at you Chair , and you may hit it in Mr Wincup 's direction . |
| 9 | I woke up a couple of hours later . |
| 10 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 11 | Mix up a couple of wash colours of varying intensity . |
| 12 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 13 | Yes we used to go to see her , and she came up a couple of times . |
| 14 | Tadpole is also lining up a couple of UK value-added resellers who will sell the Sparcbook into specific application markets , though the company says it definitely wo n't be putting a complete third distribution channel in place . |
| 15 | I turned up a couple of minutes early , found the door into the suite ajar and the sitting-room in darkness . |
| 16 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 17 | She had not abandoned her own efforts , but she had got Mrs Diggory to fetch up a couple of girls from the village . |
| 18 | One by one , punters disappear into the doorway , pick up a couple of dime bags of coke , and move off . |
| 19 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 20 | All I 've got now is I have n't got ta go out for a main , if I 'm out just pick up a couple of bits for him when from Woking . |
| 21 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 22 | She wrapped it round my shoulders at once , ignoring my protests , splashed the nice smell around , propped up a couple of magazines to combat the gloom , and divided the grapes into two bunches . |
| 23 | He also added his own adaptation of early Beefheart into his strange songs , recorded them and pressed up a couple of hundred records for friends , family and whoever . |
| 24 | It always seemed a waste to use up a couple of Gold Flake this way , but I always forget to buy cheaper cigarettes and anyway , the corner tabs on the cardboard packets make excellent roaches . |
| 25 | Crosby hopes to line up a couple of loan deals before Thursday 's transfer deadline . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't like the look of yours much , Yant , ’ was his favourite expression as the two of them prepared to chat up a couple of strange girls . |
| 27 | We have also set up a couple of microphones in the real of the hall to break up the echoes which would otherwise bounce off that wall . ’ |
| 28 | If you would like to help with a donation , by giving up a couple of hours occasionally to help to run the museum ( you do n't need to be an expert on railways , knowledge of the area is also important ) — or in some other way , please contact either the Hon. |
| 29 | Elizabeth had brought up a couple of hot bricks wrapped in pieces of blanket , which she popped into bed at each side of him . |
| 30 | She was half of the dreadlock duo , Haysi Fantayzee , which notched up a couple of Top Twenty hits in the early Eighties : ‘ John Wayne is Big Leggy ’ and ‘ Shinny Shinny ’ . |