Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 3 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 4 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 5 | The west façade , flanked by two towers , is approached up a flight of steep steps into a magnificent , open narthex ( 1178 ) where is situated the west portal . |
| 6 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 7 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 8 | It 's interesting that team briefing thing on there , because that 's come up a couple of times recently , people have mentioned about erm team briefing as a sort of management system . |
| 9 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 10 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 11 | This linguistic strategy would not work if the term Americans automatically conjured up a picture of women . |
| 12 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 13 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 14 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 15 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 16 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 17 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 18 | I thought , I du n no picked up a guarantee for twenty quid . |
| 19 | His skin had picked up a glow from the lilies on the table . |
| 20 | In its geographical analysis , the DCS system also picked up a problem with a particular building . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore . |
| 22 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 24 | United and today 's opponents Arsenal have both been under the disciplinary spotlight , having picked up a stack of yellow cards between them . |
| 25 | Both Arsenal and United have picked up a stack of yellow cards . |
| 26 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 27 | This is partly because Labour has picked up a mood of unease about the city among its residents , fearful of Frankfurt taking over its role as Europe 's financial capital , and jealous of Paris 's self-confidence and infrastructure . |
| 28 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ In fact , it was about the only game in which I 've not picked up a knock since the start of the season . |
| 30 | But City have picked up a bit with a draw at Chelsea and a comfortable win against Crystal Palace , and with the suspended Morley replaced by Oldfield , who knows where the goal is , they will be confident today . |