Example sentences of "[verb] up [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up ! |
| 2 | With natural neatness a new career is opening up to replace the old . |
| 3 | Possibly the only person ever to have succeeded in upstaging Margaret Thatcher in a photo-opportunity , Katharine lined up to shake the Prime Minister 's hand wearing a T-shirt declaring ‘ 58 per cent Do n't Want Pershing ’ at a Downing Street reception in 1984 . |
| 4 | Here the fields are small … and the hedges often tall and deep , leafy with trees of all ages as hedgerow saplings grow up to replace the dying giants … . |
| 5 | Babies born several weeks prematurely grow up to have a lower IQ on average by the ages of seven to 10 than children born at full term , according to research reported yesterday . |
| 6 | You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size . |
| 7 | It 's possible to spend the entire night enjoying oneself and ending up having a good Copenhagen breakfast of meat and cheese , yoghurt and wienerbrød … ’ |
| 8 | Within the quantitative framework , the instances of each variant are usually simply added up to produce a gross sum . |
| 9 | By now the head has come up to witness the miserable result . |
| 10 | AN unusual opportunity has come up to buy an English vineyard . |
| 11 | Long grains usually cook up to give a dry , fluffy dish , whereas the shorter grains cook wet or sticky and have a tendency to cling together . |
| 12 | It would reveal not only the acceptance of cruelty , suffering , destruction , fighting , massacring , torturing and other terrible acts that humanity as a whole instinctively condemns , but also the corruption , superstition , misrepresentation of the truth and love of pomp and elaborate ritual that has been allowed to flourish within the powerful hierarchies built up to control the various churches within the religions . |
| 13 | Backspace allows correction , carriage return or line feed terminates the process , while a decimal digit character is translated and the decimal number built up using the elementary formula |
| 14 | I have to look at the matter more broadly , and consider also the effect of a valid assignment made before winding up became an imminent prospect . |
| 15 | All this adds up to make a strong , well constructed tent . |
| 16 | Small things build up to give a positive lasting impression and provide the main opportunity to enhance the reputation of the company — in this every employee has a role to play . |
| 17 | The floaty , translucent , viscose jacket costs £195 ; the gathered skirt , with its lycra waistband which can be rolled up to form a strapless dress , is £169 , and the long overtop costs £105 . |
| 18 | Ember moved with an ease that soon took him out of sight among the frost-clawed rocks and left her panting , furious with him but unable to catch up to say a single one of the angry remarks cartwheeling through her mind . |
| 19 | ‘ During the week beginning 22 February , those peripherals necessary for us to test the new system were connected up using the new channel cables and spare channel adaptors on some device control units . ’ |
| 20 | When you have picked up stitches , for example to knit on a neckband , or when picking up to make a sideways knitted front band , if the edge is a bit rough it is a very good idea to bring the needles holding the picked up edges or stitches out to E position before knitting across with the side levers at 0 . |
| 21 | One morning they woke up to find the Blessed Margaret in charge whilst their own leaders resembled very recently decapitated chickens . |
| 22 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 23 | Drawing the assembled crowds ’ attention to the Norseman 's pedigree , Bob pointed out that it is thought to have been the first aircraft to land on the Normandy beaches during D-Day , the American fighter ace Screwball Beurling was killed in Italy whilst ferrying a Norseman to the Israelis and of course there is the legend that has built up surrounding the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Major Glenn Miller in December 1944 , after taking-off in a Norseman from Twinwoods airfield , near Bedford , England , bound for Paris , never to be seen again . |
| 24 | On the other hand , practices whose procedures are well organised and geared up to meet the new deadline will surely benefit from the new regime . |
| 25 | About ten days after the Club dance , my mother and father and I , and Anne and her parents drove up to spend a few days in the Rest House at Kota Belud , a beauty spot on the upper slopes of Kinabalu . |
| 26 | Fancy teaming up to shoot a few goals in a dynamic , fast growing team sport ? |
| 27 | The voice startled him and he spun round , looking up to see a young woman standing there . |
| 28 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 29 | The Labour vote has declined because Liverpool people are fed up paying the highest poll tax in the country for a lor ra lor ra people who wo n't pay . |
| 30 | ‘ We had outgrown our present building when the opportunity came up to purchase the adjoining freehold . |