Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 After a cautious start , Wharton , at 24 , a year younger than the Australian , took his time in the first three minutes before opening up with a series of punches in the next three rounds .
2 The car drew up outside a pair of high white gates .
3 He caught up with the pair when they stopped to change getaway cars .
4 I HAVE burned the midnight oil scanning the arid wastes of computer programming manuals , but at last a publisher has come up with a series of inexpensive , factually sound but palatable titles which aim to introduce the beginner to the fun that can be had with calculators , computers and cassette recorders .
5 It has come up with a series of proposals in conjunction with City solicitors Davies Arnold Cooper which , it says , could enable judgment to be reached in 38 days in an undefended case and 66 days in a defended case .
6 The media are receiving such an informed , dynamic and visually striking group with open arms : from picketing South West Water to protesting in full surf regalia at Parliament , from surfing in gas masks to demonstrating with a huge inflatable turd , the SAS has come up with a series of media-friendly stunts that have caught the headlines .
7 Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices Inc PC-X Division has come up with a $200 software package that lets a personal computer at home or in the field access applications on remote Unix- or VMS-based host computers .
8 I was remembering some of the facts I built up from the data you brought me .
9 You hook up with the people on the same trip and work it from there . ’
10 It is impossible to creep up on the duck , because its 360 degree vision takes in the slightest movement anywhere around it .
11 It was picked up on a £300 scanner near Andrew 's naval base at Portland , Dorset .
12 This time it was fish and chips which Mrs Wormwood had picked up in the fish and chip shop on her way home from bingo .
13 erm I I think that being able to acknowledge for themselves — the adults — for them to be able to acknowledge to themselves that this is a very stressful time , that erm that children may be needing that extra bit of sensitivity erm in terms of how we respond to their behaviour , which may be very erm connected with the general level excitement and and stress that I think we as adults are feeling , and certainly that are being picked up from the media .
14 He would remove the radios from aircraft B and substitute them with the radios stolen from aircraft A. He would then be picked up by the aircraft he came in , leaving with the radios removed from aircraft B.
15 Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September .
16 Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon .
17 But they have had since January to come up with the $570m that Mr Bush requested as emergency aid and compensation for post-invasion Panama .
18 Time to find whether opting out adds up As the 2% incentive to contract out of SERPS nears an end , LIZ WALKINGTON takes stock
19 As a Golf Plus Club Member you can enjoy up to a 20% discount on a year 's subscription to Britain 's best golf magazines bringing you the best pictures and best coverage of your favourite game .
20 They could n't be allowed to do this , because they were still attached to the creance and might get themselves caught up round the perch .
21 Tom opened the sitting-room door and the silence was broken by Sammy as he came bounding out , leaping up at the pair of them barking excitedly .
22 Complimentary ‘ Carta Venezia ’ for all guests staying 7 nights or more which can be used to obtain up to a 60% reduction on public waterboats ( 2 passport photos required ) .
23 But the compositions , which are now built up of a series of flat planes mounting upwards behind each other in shallow depth , are clearly derived from Cézanne .
24 It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles .
25 Captain David Lloyd-Owen 's LRDG patrol also turned up at the rendezvous and he recalls his first meeting with him .
26 When the unsuspecting man was safely ensconced in a deep slumber , Jarman would pull two bolts from the floor below , and the bed , which was screwed to the floor , would tip up to a 45° angle , sliding the poor wayfarer into a great vat of boiling fat strategically placed below .
27 At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry .
28 Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people .
29 But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me .
30 And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now .
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