Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 2 | After she completed her degree course , they moved to the United States , where she took up an appointment as an instructor in English at Smith College . |
| 3 | And where she blows up the lorry . |
| 4 | Or you went up the fire escape , which had fifty two steps , to go up . |
| 5 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 6 | From experience and familiarity he or she builds up a mental pictorial encyclopaedia based on study of museum collections , information from archaeological research and accumulated knowledge from books and papers describing objects of particular periods and cultures . |
| 7 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
| 8 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 9 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 10 | The significant event is the landing of Goodbody 's patrol behind enemy lines in North Africa , where they set up an ‘ advanced-area cricket pitch ’ , for the purpose of ‘ morale ’ and to impress a visiting military VIP as ‘ a small patch of sanity ’ . |
| 11 | The children , their father Jim and other members of the first UK medical expedition to Everest , were on Aonach Mor , near Fort William , yesterday where they set up an imitation base camp for the benefit of the press and potential sponsors . |
| 12 | ‘ The tree in the forest , where he sealed up the dybbuk … ’ |
| 13 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 14 | no , not yet , I 've seen the beginning where he set up the and that |
| 15 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 16 | And as independents Tony Carlin and William McCorriston , both formerly of the SDLP , counted their losses last night , the SDLP was celebrating victory in both the Northland Ward , where all five fielded candidates were elected , and on the Waterside , where it picked up an extra seat . |
| 17 | I blow out so hard that I mist up the windscreen . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied tersely , ‘ I 'll make sure that I draw up a balance sheet next time . |
| 19 | I asked Alan to fish the first drift , in order to settle down , and towards the end he suggested that I put up the dap . |
| 20 | You want that I turn up the sound ? ’ |
| 21 | Alas , they had no high chairs for nine month old Daniel , and it was with a sinking heart that I picked up the menu , while trying to hold the baby and prevent toddler Michael from pulling off the tablecloth . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 23 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 24 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 25 | The lump is not ready to answer , so I turn up the pressure : ‘ He ai n't gon na say nothing . |
| 26 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 27 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 28 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 29 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 30 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |