Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 3 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 4 | We do n't say we writhe the Munros because we do n't slither up them on our bellies , nor would we invite friends to hop , swim , float or jitterbug up a Munro on a Saturday . |
| 5 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 6 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |
| 7 | Well the problem about , er two two does include , two does include going around drumming up customers , but the difficulty with that is it seems to me that that you 'll need to drum up the customers in year one and only get the money |
| 8 | The veteran Eire international is careful not to be drawn into a new slanging match with Ferguson — but one of those reasons must be to show the United manager that he is not a crippled has-been , better equipped propping up a bar than shoring up a defence at football 's highest level . |
| 9 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 10 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 11 | send up the survey to old Hughey , he , he 'll give you a few . |
| 12 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 13 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 14 | Dougal levered up the rectangle of hardwood . |
| 15 | And he 's hoping to brew up a shock for his old mates tonight . |
| 16 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 17 | This account of normalisation focuses on opening up a range of life-style opportunities which are available to the rest of the population but which have tended to be closed to people with learning difficulties . |
| 18 | ‘ There was no conception of opening up a capacity for you to do things for yourself . |
| 19 | As Titron lifted , the black water in the dock sucked away , opening up a drop of several feet , only to be followed by a surge upwards . |
| 20 | An unpruned bush may suffer from wind rock over winter , opening up a funnel around the base of the stem which could fill with water and freeze . |
| 21 | The first frame last night was as crucial as any , but Hendry won that with breaks of 54 and 55 before opening up a lead of three with an 81 which proved to be his highest after the interval . |
| 22 | Reading this collection of interviews with twenty five Scottish and Irish women poets is like opening up a box of plain chocolates , only to be confronted with an array of brightly coloured and diverse tasting liqueurs . |
| 23 | Applix Inc , the office software supplier for Unix systems , is extending its operations to Europe , opening up an office in the UK : based in Berkhamstead , Hertfordshire , it will support and market Aster*x , its office integration software . |
| 24 | It is recognized that any programme of improving information management will cost money , in the form of staff and equipment , but any money spent will result in opening up the wealth of our information resources to larger numbers of people . |
| 25 | Information technology is playing , and will increasingly continue to play , a major role in opening up the curriculum to people with disabilities . |
| 26 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |
| 27 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 28 | She also delivered her own populist riposte , opening up the possibility of a referendum on the issue of the introduction of a single European currency . |
| 29 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 30 | Blocked negotiations with the unions resumed at the end of January , opening up the possibility of extending the deadline for job losses to the end of 1994 . |