Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was the largest and hairiest and pimpliest and dirtiest of them all , not at all the sort of person you would wish to meet up an alley on a dark night . |
| 3 | In 1989 , the United Nations drew up a convention on these rights , signed by 74 countries . |
| 4 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 5 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 6 | West need three points to be sure of promotion , Newcastle keeping up the challenge on Saturday by winning 54–21 at home to Plymouth . |
| 7 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket application programming interface and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 8 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket API and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 9 | It was largely due to her that Fred had been able to secure the leasehold of the cafe and build up trade by extending the seating arrangement and brightening up the fare on offer . |
| 10 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 11 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 12 | But the Professor prised them out and built up a bank on the opposite side , ‘ with anything I could find , old bedsteads , the lot ’ . |
| 13 | Ninety-five million years ago , sea covered most of what is now Europe and , for thirty million years , while the earth experienced great calm , the microscopic calcareous material secreted by unicellular planktonic algae built up a lime-mud on the sea-floor . |
| 14 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore . |
| 16 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 17 | Do use them for mopping up the blood on the new road . |
| 18 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 19 | It will coordinate scientific and technical research , prepare advice on the elimination of ozone-destroying substances , and build up a database on the production , consumption , use , export and import of such substances . |
| 20 | Taekwondo practitioners build up the calluses on their knuckles by performing press-ups on them , although there is evidence that prolonged conditioning in this way causes metacarpal damage . |
| 21 | He said one of their main hopes was to tighten up the law on fire precautions in flats . |
| 22 | SMALL Firms Minister Eric Forth refused to disclose the Government 's view on a plea from small businessmen to tighten up the law on bouncing cheques . |
| 23 | B would fail to comply with this if , when asked for brake fluid , he knowingly passes A the oil , or when asked to tighten up the bolts on the steering column he merely pretends to do so Similarly , A would fail to observe the maxim of Quantity , the injunction to make one 's contribution in the right proportion , if " when B needs three bolts , he purposely passes him only one , or alternatively passes him 300 . |
| 24 | He said the council intends to tighten up the by-law on dog fouling making it an offence for owners not to clear up after their dogs . |
| 25 | I think I 've just sewn up a deal on a new account . ’ |
| 26 | The best stories , though , are perhaps the first , about a middle-aged bachelor farming alone after his mother dies , and the last , about a member of the village brass band picking up a woman on a bus trip to Venice . |
| 27 | ‘ The UK felt it very important to be a member of LOFT while the ( Sizewell ) inquiry was going on , so they could demonstrate their seriousness in picking up the questions on safety ’ . |
| 28 | Soaking up the sun on a sparkling coral beach , it 's hard to imagine how our lush Reef Resort was built in Cairns , North Queensland without a single tree being felled or lifted . |
| 29 | Whenever the Fedpol think they 've built up a case on one world or another , they find platoons of sharp lawyers appearing , kilocreds are spent , evidence vanishes , witnesses have strange accidents … |
| 30 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |