Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I do that , it 's like summat inside of me is pulled out and streaks back up the street , under all the lights , right round the corner to where I ca n't see . |
| 4 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 5 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 6 | Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show . |
| 7 | What Teller hopes the West will do will be to develop its inter-dependence , eradicate secrecy between its constituent parts so the defence and the knowledge thereto is shared , and behind its nuclear shield build up a society that will prove the point about the superiority of its system . |
| 8 | Science is a collective enterprise ; over time , researchers build up a body of wisdom which tells them which are the important variables to include when modelling a particular process , and which must be controlled . |
| 9 | Small-scale basalt eruptions can fill valleys and in some cases over-top interfluves : but large-scale flood basalts can completely bury a pre-existing topography as great numbers of superimposed individual flows build up a basalt plateau . |
| 10 | Of the relatively small amount of CDs issued in other currencies , yen and ECU make up the bulk . |
| 11 | Animals make up a category of painting with an uneven reputation , though the theme is one of obvious importance and interest in sculpture . |
| 12 | Kids eat up the money . ’ |
| 13 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 14 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 15 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 16 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 19 | … with GCSE we 're plumping for having an external examiner to come into school , because the school years ago did a Mode 3 CSE , where all the kids put up an exhibition . |
| 20 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 23 | It seems necessary to conclude that in his view the words set up no trust . |
| 24 | The words set up an echo in Lorton 's mind : he remembered Sue 's death , and the doctor saying , She ca n't tell us what the problem was now , Mr Lorton . |
| 25 | When it had gone she turned to watch the white waves roll up the beach then roll back . |
| 26 | Vibrant atom-age timekeepers clock up a Nobel Prize |
| 27 | Chekov 's melodramatic last words sum up the film quite neatly : ‘ Well I guess this is goodbye ! ’ |
| 28 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 29 | Therefore , these two speeches sum up the difference between Brutus and Cassius : Brutus works unselfishly and nobly for the good of the people of Rome , disregarding personal cost ( for it did cost Brutus a lot to kill Caesar ) , while Cassius is jealous of Caesar 's great power and begins the conspiracy with hopes of gaining more prestige and power for himself . |
| 30 | Transvaal turn up the heat |