Example sentences of "[verb] up a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
| 2 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 3 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 4 | So it is n't a bad idea at this stage of the season for us to conjure up a few exercises to test receding intellectual fibre . |
| 5 | We could hang up a few politicians too. , ‘ There 's that farmer who used a plough with horses . |
| 6 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 7 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 8 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 9 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 10 | Mala 's vigorous snort stirred up a few echoes , but no one looked around . |
| 11 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 12 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 13 | She leaned closer and reached out , to pick up a few strands of dark hair . |
| 14 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 15 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 17 | Is it enough to assume you are comparatively fit because you walk up a few stairs or stretch and bend a little as you go about your household chores ? |
| 18 | Q Could you please clear up a few points which I am sure confuse other readers as well as myself . |
| 19 | The river has curved round and Odd-Knut has drawn up a few metres from the edge of a very steep drop . |
| 20 | WP When East Berlin opened up a few months ago , there were mobile porn shops visiting different quarters of the city . |
| 21 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 22 | Cardiff foreshore turned up a few conger and codling . |
| 23 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 24 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 25 | ‘ We went home on the Friday evening of the move and turned up a few days later and just started work — it was great ! ’ |
| 26 | why do n't you wait and see what the numbers are like and then you can always ring up a few people and say we 've got a space if you 'd like to come |
| 27 | Chase up a few stories . |
| 28 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
| 29 | This huge chamber is reached by a short spiral staircase which leads up a few feet beyond the gallery door in room 64 . |
| 30 | Clear up a few unsolveds , eh sir ? ’ |