Example sentences of "[vb base] up [art] [noun] like " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 ‘ I shall definitely think twice before I put up a sign like this again . ’
4 Do n't , for example , make up a story like
5 You actually make up a structure like this tetraneedle carbon we did have another one but er , obviously there 's some students have erm decided to do something different with the er things that 's all that 's left !
6 Make up a chart like this .
7 2 Make up a table like the one shown .
8 3 Make up a table like this for all the dialect words in the story : 4 Tell this story , or a story of your own , in your own dialect , or a dialect that you know well .
9 5 Draw up a grid like the one shown but without these figures .
10 Set up a lab like mine and run the same experiments , and anyone should be able to come up with the same results , for they do not depend on excessively mysterious skills or tricks , and science is after all , in the words of its most passionately admiring philosophers , public knowledge .
11 Roll up the waistband like a belt and the pleats will roll into one another .
12 Bike and boy now as one — gather up the lanes like a noisy sewing-machine
13 And when you could n't reach no higher , you 'd get hold of the truss and chuck it on your head , and go up the ladder like the deuce with it .
14 I mean I wouldn't 've minded if she said come up the house like and she mentioned Cardiff but I 've gone so fat I do n't wan na go !
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