Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity . |
| 2 | I thought that three guineas would be an appropriate amount , drew up a licence and sent it to him to sign . |
| 3 | Without knocking or hesitation he entered the left-hand door , drew up a chair and , with full and accurate expectation that he was awaited , opened his document case , threw the photographs on the desk and said , ‘ That 's the proof then . |
| 4 | ‘ I needed a break from routine rather badly , ’ he said as he drew up a chair and sat down . |
| 5 | Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs . |
| 6 | Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe . |
| 7 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 8 | Anyway , this old miser drew up an indenture and the monies were made available . |
| 9 | Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm . |
| 10 | It ran straight , hit the back of the hole , bounced up an inch and then dropped into the cup . |
| 11 | Before initiating an incident , you weighed up the pros and cons of the costs in time . |
| 12 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
| 13 | Eventually , the young officer weighed up the pros and contras and made the correct decision , for him and for yours truly , by delivering us to our front door . |
| 14 | But despite his willingness to collaborate with this tall , blond , handsome editor and publisher with his square , even teeth invariably clamped over fat Turkish cigarettes and whose ice-blue eyes sometimes narrowed as he weighed up the profit or nuisance value of a potential contributor , Vaughan regarded Lehmann critically , detecting mistrust and calculation behind the editor 's apparent kindness and friendliness . |
| 15 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 16 | The crowd caught up the shout and Jess felt excitement run through her . |
| 17 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 18 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 19 | His columnist chums built up the Dillingers and Machine Gun Kellys of America , the small-time hoods , and the G-Men , with some difficulty , took them out . |
| 20 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
| 21 | Anyway , I phoned up the station and I said , you know , I 've never seen anybody on the station , is there anybody could come and have a look at this because I 'm sure we 're gon na have a fatality before long , because , in my case it 's my wife , it could be children who are playing there ! |
| 22 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 23 | A local thug phoned up the office and said ‘ tell them if they set foot in Drogheda they wo n't get out alive ’ . |
| 24 | Victor snatched up a bottle and two glasses , and took them behind his curtain into the kitchen . |
| 25 | She snatched up a towel and went to the entryphone . |
| 26 | Kath snatched up an airway and tipped back his head . |
| 27 | Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery . |
| 28 | As Blanche snatched up the telephone and listened to the reassuring hum of the dialling tone , she caught sight of herself in the mirror on the wall : the shimmer of sweat on her forehead , eyes wild , face haggard and pale , hair stormy and unkempt , knuckles bruised and sore . |
| 29 | He snatched up the worm-cake and bit into it , forcing the bitter chocolate past the awful gagging in his throat . |
| 30 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |