Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you . |
| 2 | But I could have them send up a tray if you 'd rather stay in bed . ’ |
| 3 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
| 4 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 5 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
| 6 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
| 7 | A couple of grey and white winter-plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 9 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
| 10 | I ca n't write much this time because I 'm so near to coming home that my hand shakes every time I pick up a pen . |
| 11 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 12 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 13 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |
| 14 | go I pick up the accent . |
| 15 | I pick up the phone . |
| 16 | I pick up the phone again and dial the Home Office . |
| 17 | I pick up the bike and return it to the shed . |
| 18 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 19 | I pick up the gun and pocket it . |
| 20 | I pick up the receiver . |
| 21 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 22 | I know what a flea and a slug look like , I do n't want to be frightened to death every time I pick up the packet . |
| 23 | I pick up the paper and think about my father 's Social Security card sitting on my desk at home . |
| 24 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
| 25 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 26 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 27 | I build up a painting like that by covering the whole canvas with a kind of stain , then I get a cloth and rub the images out with a rag , block out the areas of light , then I add very thin layers of paint , then I glaze it and then paint into it . |
| 28 | The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver . |
| 29 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 30 | I cut up a sack and I dip the little bits in Stinko . |