Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other . |
| 2 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean serving up a one-legged chicken in front of all those guests . |
| 4 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 5 | Someone starts to wind up the pace . |
| 6 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 7 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 8 | In the pauses , I tried totting up the words Vern had spoken since we 'd arrived . |
| 9 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 10 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 11 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 12 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 13 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 14 | . I I i i in a way I want to back up the point Mr has just just made . |
| 15 | But if I want to move up the ladder I 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 16 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 17 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 18 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to set up a club for keen fly fishermen , all those anglers who pursue game fish like trout and salmon . |
| 20 | The problem is that I want to start up a shareware library , but I have no idea of how to obtain the shareware titles . |
| 21 | ‘ I want to ride up the front with you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I want to walk up the other valley too , ’ said Betty . |
| 23 | On this last day I want to sum up the things we have discussed . |
| 24 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
| 25 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 26 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 27 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 28 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 29 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 30 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |