Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you like you can sign all it says is erm it just it 's just telling you what it is and saying that you do n't mind them typing up the words form this . |
| 2 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 3 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 4 | I bring up the others , cooling all the while , before we flounder over to the descent rake and back to the house . |
| 5 | I pick up the cards and deal a circle for Clock Patience . |
| 6 | I pick up the scissors because I 'm alone in the shop and if he touches me again he 'll leave without something he came in with , when the bell goes on the door and this other boy in a city suit comes in , boring yuppie sort . |
| 7 | I zipped up the flaps , not daring to show my anger . |
| 8 | I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do . |
| 9 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
| 10 | I got home , I phoned up the police , and they say , ‘ Oh , no , we do n't know anything about any road blocks . ’ |
| 11 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
| 12 | I asked as I stirred up the tea-bags . |
| 13 | ‘ Now then — you can start to dry yourself with that towel , while I heat up the tongs . ’ |
| 14 | I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide . |
| 15 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 16 | I slice up the onions . |
| 17 | About six months ago I set up a 48″ × 15″ × 12″ tank for African cichlids . |
| 18 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 19 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 20 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 21 | I collected up the pipes and made my way through the trees in the direction of NO. 3 Commando . |
| 22 | In the course of conversational interviews ( Burgess , 1988 ) that 1 conducted with Valerie Way and with Jenny Ball I followed up the themes of religion , gender and feminism and the impact these had upon their day to day work . |
| 23 | I roll up the sleeves of my crisp white shirt , because old thought is dusty stuff . |
| 24 | I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way , marching up and down the church hall . |
| 25 | The guns a short distance away along the river bank were shelling the German positions as I started up the bagpipes in a fairly secluded thicket , the sound of the drones and the pipe reed easily drowning the noise of the guns . |
| 26 | With the summer certain to be dominated ( again ) by sequels ( Legal Weapon 3 , Batman Returns , Alien³ ; , Honey I Blew Up The Kids ) , Hollywood pundits are keeping busy predicting this season 's sleeper hits . |
| 27 | In the car I rolled up the windows and screamed all the way to the Sawtelle Veteran 's Hospital in Los Angeles where we were filming . |
| 28 | See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’ |
| 29 | Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray . |
| 30 | But I keep up the woods . |