Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Darren Pearce 's Sapphire 1.8 LX has racked up a remarkable 112,000 miles in four years without missing a beat — and without regular servicing
2 Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags .
3 A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 .
4 Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) .
5 Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim .
6 The BBC has picked up a similar trend .
7 Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter .
8 Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics .
9 The reigning European Barefoot Champion has picked up the British Waterski Federation 's highest award for her outstanding achievments .
10 The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is .
11 Since appearing on a BBC Christmas programme from Pebble Mill in 1981 Fine Arts Brass has built up a long and varied list of TV and radio credits , including its own series of light entertainment shows on BBC Radio 4 , now in its third series .
12 But since Rayful 's father started him off in the business with a packet of cocaine from New York , prosecutors allege that Mr Edmond has built up a vast business concern , generating sales of up to $2m ( £1.25m ) a week .
13 The questionnaire has built up a socio-economic background to the financial and physical environment that family and part-time farmers have to live in .
14 Mr Bates has built up a 29.65 per cent stake in Cabra through a Virgin Islands-based company , Vanbrugh , but a full-scale bid looks unlikely .
15 He has built up a strong , ecumenical team of Christians and Hindus which is unusual for a centre of this kind .
16 The general issue of reconciling with his academic interests the feeling of social commitment to an underprivileged group with whom the researcher has built up a strong feeling of empathy is discussed by Labov ( 1982b ) ; this discussion forms a preliminary to his account of the use made of linguistic evidence by the defendants in the famous Black English Trial in Michigan .
17 We did discover , however , that one called Mait — his officially registered name is Gilles Lemaitre — has built up a small but powerful network of his own , and that they have performed many cochon gris ceremonies . ’
18 Over the years , Michael has built up a wide circle of customers and friends worldwide , who visit whenever in London .
19 It has built up a solid reputation amongst user education practitioners in the USA and is now the undisputed national clearinghouse for that country .
20 The gallery has built up a well-balanced programme of work offering an annual arrangement of exhibitions clearly influenced by a strong equal opportunities policy .
21 Nomad has built up a loyal customer base , owing in part , say the Curries , to its ‘ bright airy atmosphere ’ and to the level of personal service provided .
22 Three Choirs has built up a good reputation and has proved popular with wine buyers .
23 During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey .
24 Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business .
25 This small but impressive gallery has been a launch pad for many artists over the years and has built up a steady , progressive reputation under the new directorship of Tim Eastop .
26 British Aerospace has confirmed that it has built up a 1.7 per cent stake in the company .
27 Burmah , where Dutch industrial group SHV has built up a 9 per cent stake , refused to comment on rumours in New York that it was preparing a bid for American-based Quaker State Corporation which makes motor oils .
28 Since its establishment in 1959 it has built up an international reputation as a centre of excellence in its fields .
29 Miss Muir , 59 , who with her husband Harry Leuckert has built up an impressive collection of art pieces , declines to discuss the gift , but stresses that her donation was a private gesture .
30 During this period it has built up an impressive reputation for its concerts , broadcasts and recordings , having given over 1000 concerts in Britain , played in almost 50 countries spanning four continents and broadcast over 100 times for the BBC alone .
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