Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Soon after moving in Minton drew up a will in which he left the house to Ricky . |
| 5 | In 1977 , we drew up a petition in the name of AMPES which was distributed to factory owners . |
| 6 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 7 | He drew up an agreement in two copies , setting out the terms in ponderous detail : ‘ … referred to henceforth as ‘ the colony' ’ … which wheels shall be considered as handed over to the Economic Section of the Provincial Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspection after their reception by a special commission and the signing of the corresponding protocol . ’ |
| 8 | Have you considered the harm you may be causing to people , tearing up the past in this way ? |
| 9 | Actually we were n't too happy with the back of the old barn , because although we 'd tried to plug up every hole in the stonework , it was still possible for a determined young owl to squeeze out here and there . |
| 10 | How large were the , were the classes with these influx of all these , di did it boost up the numbers in the ? |
| 11 | KEVIN Keegan has lodged a substantial bid for an unnamed player but wo n't tie up the deal in time for Saturday 's home game with Brighton . |
| 12 | Top up the level in the bucket to five gallons with cold water . |
| 13 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 14 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ He beat up a woman in custody . ’ |
| 16 | Local Stigmatic is about two Cockney thugs who beat up an actor in the pub because ‘ fame is the first disgrace because God knows who you are . ’ |
| 17 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 18 | He could go and dig up the roadworks during the night , and get some cement made up in a small container and cement up the holes in manhole covers you used to lift the things up by . |
| 19 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 20 | Here he built up a trade in seeds , corn , manure , and fertilizer , and started a malt kiln in Driffield and a brewery and kilns in Malton . |
| 21 | This set a delay and took the photographs corresponding to each half in turn , built up an array in the memory , and finally displayed the image . |
| 22 | The more North built up the contras in secret , the more he fretted that liberal Democrats in Congress ( ’ Kerry , Barnes , Harkin et al . ’ ) |
| 23 | Dreyfus built up the business in the face of fierce competition and the company won a well deserved place in the aniline field , which lasted for over 90 years . |
| 24 | so then the housekeeper phoned up the doctor in October |
| 25 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 26 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 27 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 28 | It was more surprising coming from thrusting thirtysomethings who had probably never picked up a copy in their lives , certainly not since their last visit to the school dentist . |
| 29 | Three generations have passed through this room , slept here , argued here , made love here , even picked up a passenger in Shaftesbury Avenue to take out to Neasden … ’ |
| 30 | picked up a point in a 1–1 draw George woodhouse gave the home side the lead 15 minutes from the end , but Roger Wicks levelled five minutes later . |