Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sister picks up a |
| 2 | My dilemma points up a basic dichotomy in the educational aims of the school . |
| 3 | ‘ My team put up a good workmanlike performance . |
| 4 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 5 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 6 | I start running , but my body puts up a fight . |
| 7 | When I first came to live here this room ran through to the back of the house , but my husband put up a partition , so we have a small room at the back where we can have our meals . |
| 8 | My resolve to set up an inquiry into the social security system was strengthened by one other important factor . |
| 9 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 10 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 11 | Before he died my father set up a trust to endow the Sherman Field Museum of Natural History in Washington . |
| 12 | across the road and took my cigarettes out , out my pocket to light up a cigarette and a bus came round the corner so I put it back again . |
| 13 | My aunt looked up the records and told me about her . |
| 14 | In view of the limited time available before the scheduled date for Advance Data Capture for Council Tax purposes I will ask my secretary to set up a meeting to discuss this document and Council Tax structures and staffing levels in a couple of weeks time . |
| 15 | PAMELA : As it is your will and you have determined , it is my duty to yield up the point . |
| 16 | I helped my dad clear up the house — he 's very good at that . |
| 17 | ‘ No lass , I 'm on my way to pick up a radiator . |
| 18 | ‘ I am on my way to take up a situation as companion and had to put up here to catch the cross stage tomorrow . ’ |
| 19 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 20 | Twenty years ago , in all innocence , the occupant of my house stuck up a little fence , 15ft long , inside his own boundary . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it is very important to encourage younger women to see that it is possible to combine a career with having a family , that you do n't miss out on your children — my son wakes up every Saturday so excited that it 's the weekend , not because he does n't have a lovely time during the week , but because there 's nothing for him quite like his parents . ’ |
| 22 | With its horn blaring and its lights flashing , the bus had left its route to take up the chase . |
| 23 | The drawback , inevitably , is that everything is dependent upon the existence of a CAB in the area , its willingness to set up the scheme , and the co-operation of the local profession . |
| 24 | Indeed , one of the main sources of growth of the small SLF union following its foundation in 1981 was its willingness to take up the individual grievances of the workforce , very much in the tradition of the vertical union of the Franco era . |
| 25 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ she asked , her heart picking up the pace again . |
| 26 | Her heart took up a sickening thud . |
| 27 | Hepworth and Stoll failed in their attempt to set up a permanent sales operation in America ; Samuelson secured a short-lived distribution arrangement with First National Exhibitors ' Circuit , and various other films secured some sort of release . |
| 28 | Ruth moaned as she staggered out of her bedroom to pick up the phone . |
| 29 | The three contending armed factions inside Liberia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bamako ( Mali ) on Nov. 28 , and a further agreement in Banjul ( The Gambia ) on Dec. 21 declaring their intention to set up a national conference within 60 days as a prelude to establishing their own interim government . |
| 30 | Nationalists in Nakhichevan on Jan. 19 had declared the region 's secession from the Soviet Union and their intention to set up an independent Islamic republic . |