Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ) |
| 5 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 6 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 7 | It was more surprising coming from thrusting thirtysomethings who had probably never picked up a copy in their lives , certainly not since their last visit to the school dentist . |
| 8 | Three generations have passed through this room , slept here , argued here , made love here , even picked up a passenger in Shaftesbury Avenue to take out to Neasden … ’ |
| 9 | picked up a point in a 1–1 draw George woodhouse gave the home side the lead 15 minutes from the end , but Roger Wicks levelled five minutes later . |
| 10 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 11 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 12 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 13 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 14 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 15 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 16 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 17 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 18 | The leases have brewed up a storm in Darlington as landlords say they could mean the end of many traditional pubs . |
| 19 | Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've grown up a lot in the last two years , ’ she said quietly and I silently agreed with her . |
| 21 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 22 | People who spend much of their time in this type of activity will probably have already built up a reputation in the area . |
| 23 | I have built up a conception in which the agents belonging to a given economic class ( defined at the level of property holding ) may be distributed in various ways into more or less strongly formed social collectivities of various degrees of political pertinence . |
| 24 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |
| 25 | And there is a good account of the infamous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate when Kennedy 's aide even turned up the heat in Nixon 's dressing-room to make him sweat more . |
| 26 | The following season he made 64 not out as nightwatchman against Trinidad , was moved up the order in the second innings , and responded with 188 ; a year later , in 1943–4 , also against Trinidad , he and John Goddard put on an undefeated 502 for the fourth wicket , at the time the third highest partnership in first-class cricket . |
| 27 | Another squint through the net curtains showed Cunningham being pushed up a ramp in the direction of the reception area . |
| 28 | Rupe roots for his mate Bob Rupert Murdoch has stirred up the possums in Australia , his former homeland , by praising his mate Bob Hawke , the Prime Minister , and dismissing Andrew Peacock , the opposition leader . |
| 29 | Though the CPRS had drawn up an agenda in four parts , starting with our relationship with the external world , we soon found ourselves in the middle of a second reading debate over the whole field . |
| 30 | The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle . |