Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 2 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |
| 3 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 4 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 5 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 6 | It enabled Hardy to mount up the points , but Fernandez never gave up trying , despite visibly tiring from the halfway stage . |
| 7 | As I said , it is a pleasure to speak in the debate , despite the rhetoric and the attempt to whip up the masses outside the House by saying that the Labour party comprises anti-patriotic pacifists . |
| 8 | Such an approach 's insistence on dealing with non-traditional , non-objective methods points up the ambiguities which characterize psychological methods , in a persistent and useful way . |
| 9 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 10 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 11 | And all the hardware and systems companies that have made a precarious living gathering up the crumbs under IBM 's table . |
| 12 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 13 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 14 | Any attempt to open up the convolutions of farm policy to public scrutiny is bound to be seen as a threat to those with an interest in the status quo . |
| 15 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 16 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 17 | This required LEAs to set up a careers service . |
| 18 | I am looking forward to the next stage of Tencel and we are already working with Fibers and Research to set up the teams for a new project . |
| 19 | Talk about playing golf while Rome burns ; just leave the canny Scots to pick up the bargains . |
| 20 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 21 | So far David 's letters from a couple of children who understand his fascination but what he really wants is enough other fans to set up a collectors club for cone crazies . |
| 22 | It plans to fell some of the older trees alongside the lakes to open up the views down the valley . |
| 23 | The cost was indeed so great that there were not even enough rich and unsuitable candidates to buy up the nominations . |
| 24 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 25 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 26 | This comprised a moonlit cable car ride up the mountains to a creaky farmhouse for cheese fondue , heady wine and oompah-pah music — the perfect way to round off a day 's skiing . |
| 27 | A shift from a presidential system to that of a Prime Minister and Cabinet would make it easier for parties to divide up the rewards of victory between their various factions ( as illustrated by the Japanese model ) . |
| 28 | IN 1930 at the height of the great depression , in an attempt to cheer up the citizens and stimulate trade and industry , many towns throughout Northern Ireland organised shopping weeks which took the form of festivals . |
| 29 | Routine thinking throws up no ideas about how to work on or round or against a seemingly impossible situation — which reaffirms powerlessness . |
| 30 | The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off . |