Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For using up the tapes , I 'll take it tomorrow at Wembley |
| 2 | Using any of the traditional methods of cost analysis you will need a substantial quantity of paper , a good financial calculator , a ruler for drawing up the forms and a quiet corner to get on with it . |
| 3 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 4 | About picking up the pieces and wondering where we go from there , even though I know there are other things he 's interested in . |
| 5 | And a collection of routine thoughts and physical distractions are useful for filling up the spaces created by the avoidance . |
| 6 | You can also make a gorgeous looped and fringed edge simply by knitting lots more rows between picking up the stitches to make loops at least en centimetres deep ( four inches ) — or even longer as a tremendous finish for shawls and stoles , or for the edges of collars and cuffs and jackets . |
| 7 | And now for picking up the bits . |
| 8 | good for picking up the marks . |
| 9 | ‘ We are in the process of drawing up the seedings and groupings of the various qualifying rounds , ’ said tournament director Brian Skirrow . |
| 10 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 11 | The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation was an international organisation established by agreement for the purpose of building up an arms industry for the benefit of its member States . |
| 12 | For the first time the new cannon offered relative ease of production , and a greater degree of safety in use , unlike the former practice of building up the guns from iron bands held together with loops . |
| 13 | I did get and proved the place I 've been going that actually more accidents due to blocking and you sort of back up the stairs with you |
| 14 | He was a gentle , kindly old man ( a tailor by trade ) who was happy to leave his wife in complete charge of bringing up the kids in her own way . |
| 15 | Third , if the crude mechanism of totting up the votes for different parties is to be employed for the purpose of supporting a specific contention , there is the inconvenient fact that 79 per cent of those who voted in Scotland backed parties that wish to maintain the Union . |
| 16 | I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits . |
| 17 | The Germans did their fair share of tearing up the woods . |
| 18 | Braque , on the other hand , has used Cézanne 's technique of opening up the contours of objects , so that in his paintings the eye slips inwards and upwards from plane to plane without having to make a series of abrupt transitions or adjustments . |
| 19 | With proposals for a fifth terrestrial channel currently being studied and a variety of plans to introduce pay-TV under consideration , the Government is clearly embarking on a policy of opening up the airwaves . |
| 20 | The Dublin hero , presently playing in the top ranks of the professional German Bundasleague , is capable of holding a top 50 world ranking but his shoulder injury at the world championships in Sweden spoiled his chances of promoting up the ratings . |
| 21 | It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces . |
| 22 | but of course , it had kind of stirred up a hornets ' nest ! |
| 23 | At about six in the evening the trip home would begin , after some hectic moments of rounding up the strays . |
| 24 | The task of filling up the blanks I 'd rather leave to you . |
| 25 | As yet there are no estimates of the cost of cleaning up the areas around the mines , but it is likely to be very high . |
| 26 | JILY JIP TUP A thinking machine that develops a stammer ; the action of pulling up the trousers while running uphill |
| 27 | JIL JIPY TUP Any machine with something incurable about it ; pleasant laughter that is nevertheless unwelcome ; the action of pulling up the trousers while running downhill |
| 28 | ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono . |
| 29 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 30 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |