Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified .
2 So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " .
3 Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of :
4 So I made up the rest and everyone liked it .
5 I made up the difference out of my own money . ’
6 So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers .
7 I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one .
8 So prolific was my perspiration I steamed up the viewfinder , and I imagine my acquaintance now possesses a fine set of prints featuring the edge of my thumb and some clouds .
9 on this anyway I , I finally , I did n't like it at all , but now I 'd done , I have me feather back I 'm alright I was like deaf when I got up every morning .
10 I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead .
11 I zipped up the flaps , not daring to show my anger .
12 I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties .
13 I took all of them , then I phoned up a couple of people I knew .
14 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
15 I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do .
16 Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there !
17 So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet .
18 Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me .
19 I got home , I phoned up the police , and they say , ‘ Oh , no , we do n't know anything about any road blocks . ’
20 I phoned up the bank this morning .
21 On my first evening , my body still believing it was morning , I wandered up the maze of cobbled alleyways to the city 's most venerable quarter .
22 I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’
23 I drew up a form with these headings and time was calibrated in fifteen minute interval boxes which , by the use of a marking code , could also show five minute intervals .
24 I drew up the list , you 've got it written in there .
25 I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside .
26 I fixed up an interview with him .
27 I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags .
28 I woke up a couple of hours later .
29 Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle .
30 And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed .
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