Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vologsky made no move to close the hood , or warm up the aircraft 's engines . |
| 2 | But these are not just shoelaces — use them to be different ; plait , twist , braid or cord them for a variety of looks and purposes , from bracelets , necklaces , hair bands , bag cords or to brighten up a pair of trainers . |
| 3 | ‘ We called Keith ‘ the hunataway ’ , like the dogs that round up the sheep . |
| 4 | And the man who made his money out of glass lenses invited the finest craftsmen in Britain to design and make up a series of stained glass windows . |
| 5 | Parrott , the UK snooker champ , scored a tremendous 6-5 victory over the world champion and world No 1 to claim the first title of the season and pick up a £25,000 cheque . |
| 6 | Winners of this year 's competition will take over the education page for a day and pick up a £200 cash prize . |
| 7 | Each slice was glue-sprayed and bundled up a pair of stepladders to be stuck into place . |
| 8 | Meeting in the Bulgarian port of Verna , officials from the six states agreed to establish marine protection centres in each country , and to set up a $32 million fund to support work on reducing oil , chemical and biological pollution and to improve fishing conditions . |
| 9 | Taking advantage of the diversion created by the school of minnows laying their eggs , this predatory fish would enter stage right and gobble up the perch 's eggs while he was desperately trying to evict the minnows . |
| 10 | Cockroaches crawl inside machinery such as tape recorders and computers and gum up the works . |
| 11 | In a separate case , jobless waitress Lisa Chapman was fined over her pet rat Ziggy and afterwards the RSPCA defended its actions in bringing the case and running up a £600 bill . |
| 12 | George was second out of the hat and picks up the £100 second prize , while Yvonne is £50 better-off in third place . |
| 13 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 14 | On receiving confirmation of his decision from the commander , the pilot made a turn to the left and lined up the aircraft for an approach to the selected field . |
| 15 | The Bank of England assumed ownership of JMB and put up a £75 million indemnity to cover claims and a £100 million loan to strengthen JMB 's balance sheet . |
| 16 | From there the vans would be collected by the ex-Great Central Railway Fish Dock tankers ( a little outside cylinder 0 — 6 — 0 side tank locomotive of a short-wheel base design for working the tight curves on the docks ) and pushed up the fish jetty for loading with fish for despatch to such places as Leicester and Banbury as part of the express fish train service offered by the railway . |
| 17 | The following morning they lit the oil-lamp in the shrine and loaded up the sheep . |
| 18 | 3Com Corp reached agreement to settle four consolidated class action lawsuits and set up a $9.85m fund . |
| 19 | He sliced round one side , then the other , removed two saucer-shaped pieces of rind from either end , made a transverse cut across the middle and gradually lifted the fruit from the peel , put it down and held up a pair of spectacles to Caterina 's face , two owl eyes of orange peel on a single stem . |