Example sentences of "[vb -s] up one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda Denvir takes up one of the most pressing contemporary issues , that of the multiple roles of assessment in schools , by looking at the intimately-related questions of ‘ what are we assessing ? ’ and , ‘ what are we assessing for ? ’ |
| 2 | He walks out of the shrine without looking at the crowd , picks up one of the lambs , frightened and bleating , and carries its almost weightless body round to the side of the shrine . |
| 3 | They will attack anyone who picks up one of the instruments . |
| 4 | The pool is filled with water and bubbles and the kids scoot down the slide attached to the climbing frame into the bubble bath and the arms of a playworker who picks up one of the children and kisses his little red bum . |
| 5 | The female alights on the rim of a stranger 's nest , picks up one of the eggs in her beak , flies off with it and then swallows it . |
| 6 | There is a lot of reading material to get through and absorb , and there are cases to attend as an observer before a new Panel Member finally makes up one of the three actually hearing a case . |