Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 2 | One minute she 'd be putting up a good case for one course of action , then produce an equally convincing rebuttal . |
| 3 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 5 | Its primary function is to sharpen up the best of good practice . ’ |
| 6 | That 's right , well that 's takes up a good deal of time . |
| 7 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |