Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rohan drew up a chair with gilded legs which looked altogether too fragile for his tall frame . |
| 2 | I drew up a form with these headings and time was calibrated in fifteen minute interval boxes which , by the use of a marking code , could also show five minute intervals . |
| 3 | After the break , though , the Welsh moved up a gear with the French slowing down by the equivalent amount . |
| 4 | I fixed up an interview with him . |
| 5 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 6 | I began the basic structure of the rose leaves in the bottom left of the picture and then built up the shape with the larger open roses , tucking the asparagus fern and gypsophila behind them , and finally put the buds into position . |
| 7 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 8 | And I filled up the boat with forty loads of blanketweed . |
| 9 | He filled up the doorway with his uneasy bulk and there was defiance in his eyes . |
| 10 | He had hardly passed through the swing doors when Massingham drove up the ramp with the Rover . |
| 11 | P C and myself went round to the side of the bed and P C lifted up the bed with one hand carrying the gun in his other hand . |
| 12 | He stretched out his hand and tried to pick it up , and the plank came up an inch with it . |
| 13 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 14 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 15 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 16 | Liverpool turned up the heat with their crisp , passing game ; Sunderland 's hope melted , and their players froze . |
| 17 | She threaded up the machine with the right cotton for her curtains , arranged the material in the right position under the needle , and began to turn the handle of the machine . |
| 18 | JUST nine weeks before he died Dr Donal McGettigan proudly walked up the aisle with his new bride , Carmel . |
| 19 | After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine . |
| 20 | Salman Rushdie followed up a meeting with prominent Muslims on Christmas Eve by announcing his conversion to Islam . |
| 21 | I must have looked uncomprehending , for he followed up the pantomime with : |
| 22 | Cornelius watched as the barmaid scooped up the bluebottle with the spatula , flipped it into the air and batted it out of the window . |
| 23 | He bent and scooped up the tin with the barrel of the revolver , and held it high . |
| 24 | When it was as pale and bald as a fledgeling , he dismembered the body , hacked up the meat with a small adze and dropped the cut pieces into a pan of hot oil . |
| 25 | She shot him an angry look , but all she received in return was a derisively raised eyebrow , and , when Claudine came back to their table and pulled up a chair with the ease of a spoiled favourite , Alain gave her all his attention and left Jenna to try to pull Marguerite back into some sort of pleasure at this irritating treat . |
| 26 | We rounded them up , pulled up the anchor with some difficulty from the sticky mud ( when chartering in these waters , make sure you get a boat with a windlass ) and set off . |
| 27 | I shifted into second , and the Discovery stormed up the slope with a roar of V8 power , only to slither to a halt halfway up , its front wheels sliding sideways on a sheet of ice and threatening the worst off-road fate of all — to be stuck across a slope . |
| 28 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 29 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 30 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |