Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 2 | So I take up a book and try to read . |
| 3 | So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe . |
| 4 | Erm and so they set up a team erm four or five teams within the city , er which included Radford , the Crabtree Meadows area , erm and Bestwood area |
| 5 | Ozoloins has a strong musical personality as well as the necessary technique for these works , and together they make up an attractive package if once again ( at less than 59 minutes in total ) a somewhat short-weight one . |
| 6 | She was home but , like him , an exile : together they made up a little principality but it was inside the great metropolis . |
| 7 | So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it . |
| 8 | They were n't able to give him this so he took up a reciprocal heading and dropped down to 2,000 ‘ ft ‘ and eventually found Humberside — all the time trying to figure out what had gone wrong . |
| 9 | There 's aids and he 's chasing the bum and the bum 's running and the aids is going come on you little bastard and he 's going leave me alone and so he runs up a tree and there 's a bird there and he 's got all bones on him , he 's a s witch doctor and the bird goes , and the bird goes , what 's a matter ? |
| 10 | These pillars here in the gallery are kind of working also quite minimally as trees in the gallery , so it sets up a nice atmosphere . |
| 11 | Somehow I sat up a bit . |
| 12 | Unconsciously she put up a hand to that fatal head of hair , and her fingers , coming into contact with the enveloping white cap , brought her a sobering thought . |
| 13 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
| 14 | Finally he picked up a handful of stones and every time he looked round and found her following , he threw one . |
| 15 | From somewhere she dredged up a brilliant smile , still angry she had allowed this aggravating man to get beneath her defences . |
| 16 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 17 | Gradually we built up a common world , partly based on the great of the past , like Jane Austen , partly on Ivy . |
| 18 | On the way hack they get past the enemy coast and usually they light up a cigarette " . |
| 19 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 20 | ‘ Is n't he the grand feller , chanting away , as if it was only yesterday he called up a spell or two ? ’ ) |
| 21 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 22 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 23 | Whenever you pick up a heavy load , bend both legs . |
| 24 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 25 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 26 | Now you hold up a minute , Muvver . ’ |
| 27 | Sometimes — now , for instance — I look down on Tod , on John , as a mother might ( mother night ) , and try to find hope in the innocence or neutrality of his sleep So now we wake up a new man . |
| 28 | On their way out they opened up a tool-box and took out a long slender chisel apiece . |
| 29 | Now he puts up an egg box . |
| 30 | Albert then in turn discovers Celie 's true self and slowly they build up a trust and confide in each other . |