Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having established the undercoat by way of washing and blotting onto damp paper , I now begin to apply very watery paint onto dry paper , slowly building up a series of translucent layers . |
| 2 | Having established the undercoat by way of washing and blotting onto damp paper , I now begin to apply very watery paint onto dry paper , slowly building up a series of translucent layers . |
| 3 | Tall and powerful , he is naturally an attacking batsman who loves to play his shots , and his Test average has no doubt suffered from having often had to play defensively to shore up the innings . |
| 4 | Many of the botanists who studied the adaptation of species to extreme environments became convinced that the effect of the climate upon an individual plant could be transmitted to its offspring , thus building up the species ' level of adaptation through a Lamarckian process . |
| 5 | Daniel had meanwhile built up the works , from a large smelter in three storeys to coal-sheds , workshops , a stamp mill , and housing in Brigham , almost a mile east of Keswick on the river Greta . |
| 6 | They thought he was reaching for an ornamental knife when in fact he was just picking up a pair of socks . |
| 7 | I 'd already set up the perch , so I put Dawn on it as I spoke . |
| 8 | Chrysler and Mitsubishi have already set up a $1bn ( £653m ) car plant in Illinois which has a capacity of 250,000 vehicles a year . |
| 9 | And the BOR is a friendly fellow too ; he may sometimes be a rough diamond , he may swear and complain about the weather , the food , the British Government , but he shrewdly weighs up the people he meets . |
| 10 | A major advantage of deck shoes is their price — you can easily pick up a pair for a fiver . |
| 11 | Deborah Sherwin , defending Miller , said she had sold her home to set up the fish stall at Redcar and Ferryhill markets but when her marriage broke up her husband took over running the stall on the understanding it would provide for their daughter . |
| 12 | Exceptions have been made in four areas where the high incidence of large industrial users quickly took up the 15% , but attempts by the EIUG to have the concessions extended have been rebuffed by Littlechild . |
| 13 | Representatives of the Education Ministry and the ruling Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) immediately drew up a series of " campus stabilization measures " designed to improve security and restrict student political activity . |
| 14 | TEXTILES giant Coats Viyella today ran up a £35m bill . |
| 15 | TODAY snapped up the £5.25 china corgi she had her eye on . |
| 16 | Thus there build up a series of steps with sharp , cliff-like fronts ( Plate 10 ) . |
| 17 | The partners had already started to restrict drawings on the account , and Ms Harris and Charles Bullworthy then put up a £150,000 guarantee , supported by a second charge on their house , in order to increase the practice facility . |
| 18 | After discussing what led a girl to become a prostitute they then set up a series of dramas showing some of the stresses ( including poverty ) a fictitious character had had to face in her early life . |
| 19 | He then brought up the £8000 to £8,000 by steering clear of the OTC , and the vicar was ecstatic that at last he seemed to be making some money . |
| 20 | By the mid-1950's the catch was diminishing , then the big Russian and Dutch factory ships moved in and began virtually vacuuming up the fish , taking the young as well as the adults . |
| 21 | Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing ! |
| 22 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |