Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun] at " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Bridge moved up a place at the weekend to fourth from bottom , without playing a game , as Bedlington had three points deducted for playing an ineligible player , and so swapped places with the Darlington club .
3 Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival .
4 Roux and Co cook up a treat at Food Show .
5 They had picked up the man at the bottom of the hill .
6 It were my other sister 's daughter 's eighteenth and she 'd booked up a party at the club .
7 An example of this is walking up an escalator at the same speed that the escalator is moving downwards .
8 Picking up a PC at the supermarket
9 Mooney has received a onematch suspension for reaching 21 disciplinary points this season after picking up a booking at Carlisle 12 days ago .
10 The integration of the key system with the hotel management programme , speeds up the traffic at the reception desk since the keycard is authorised automatically when the guest checks in .
11 My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you .
12 The intention of the IB is clear ; it is to clean up the game at all levels particularly the shop window of the internationals .
13 Roger North , the young Surrey allrounder , is the hero , with strong love interest , and a climax to tempt film-makers as he climbs up the gasholder at The Oval with the villain .
14 Things are looking up a bit at the moment .
15 After 35 years as president of the company he founded back in 1957 , Ken Olsen will give up the reins at Digital Equipment Corp this October , aged 66 .
16 She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people .
17 The Kremlin Armoury and the Hermitage sent their trucks to pick up the shipments at customs , and to make the rounds in their respective cities .
18 Page two , trying to pick up the bit at over the bottom of the door .
19 Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing .
20 Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here .
21 They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation
22 A survey of 17 major organisations that had shown interest in joining TOPP , but had later decided not to go ahead , found that although many were still enthusiastic and hoped to set up a scheme at some time in the future , several of them saw cost as a major deterrent .
23 Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off .
24 The common way to set up a school at this time was by means of a chantry .
25 Paragraph 29 of the statement of claim alleges that the third and fourth defendants and through them , the fifth defendant were ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the breaches of section 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 in four specified respects , namely , ( i ) in authorising the transfer of a sum of U.S. $250,000 out of an account in the name of the second defendant into which investors ' money had been paid ; ( ii ) in making arrangements during the postal strike in September 1988 for the collection from investors of their cheques and for the distribution of advertisements inviting investment in Euramco ; ( iii ) in paying investors ' cheques into Pantell S.A. 's bank account ; and ( iv ) in attempting to set up an account at Barclays Bank 's Holborn branch for another company , also called Pantell S.A.
26 Hold up a finger at arm's-length , close one eye , and line your finger up with a picture or some other convenient object some way away .
27 Tony 's gon na bring up the lorry at six o'clock sharp on Saturday night .
28 But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt .
29 ‘ I checked out most of Crevecoeur 's old haunts , ’ he said , consulting his memofile , ‘ and turned up the goods at Alix Micklemas ’ tattoo parlour . ’
30 A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city .
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