Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 5 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 6 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 12 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 13 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 14 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 15 | Martin Birchall has picked up the Photographer of the Year award for the second time . |
| 16 | ‘ Had you picked up the skills by watching your mother ? ’ |
| 17 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 18 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 19 | Maxim had picked up the story from friends in the Intelligence Corps . |
| 20 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he 's starting with ex-Data General man John Doyle as vice president , sales and marketing . |
| 21 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he is starting with ex-Data General Corp staffer John Doyle as vice-president , sales and marketing . |
| 22 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 23 | A. Apling ( Department of the Environment ) immediately picked up the relevance of this statement to government attitudes in his discussion of Policy implications of atmospheric chemical change . |
| 24 | They had picked up the man at the bottom of the hill . |
| 25 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 26 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 27 | Had the chauffeur ever picked up the Prince from the neighbourhood ? |
| 28 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 29 | This season of exhibitions promises a unique and long awaited opportunity to address , at first hand , the current concerns and practices of the women artists who have picked up the gauntlet of the conventional ‘ feminism versus modernism ’ polarisation . |
| 30 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |