Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stock must be grown on as though nothing has happened — the top growth is needed to pull up the sap from the roots , past and into contact with the bud . |
| 2 | The little room seemed to conjure up a scene from the past , an almost timeless memory . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm just popping into town to pick up a parcel from the station . |
| 4 | The captain showed them a rough map drawn crudely on tough , brown vellum and with a stubby finger and guttural comments pointed out the coastline of Fife , the manor of Kinghorn and the possible place where the French could dock to pick up a party from the beach . |
| 5 | Anna put down her coffee mug , stubbed out her cigarette , lit another , then stretched to pick up a book from her bedside-table . |
| 6 | It is very easy to pick up a meaning from a metaphor which was perhaps not the one intended . |
| 7 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe someone comes in to pick up the post from time to time . ’ |
| 10 | The saw will cut off the tongue of one board so that you can use a wide wood chisel , or a bolster chisel , to lever up a board from the side . |
| 11 | He made it harder for himself , though much more valuable , by refusing to take short cuts or to mug up the subject from the textbooks : he went to the original sources . |
| 12 | Kelly was excellent at right back , as was Dorigo on the left : once in the first half he stepped in from the left to tidy up the ball from charging Ippo players , strolled over to the right , and set up a counter attack down the flank , all with great ease ; he looks great . |
| 13 | Products available include : Select Portfolio , an efficient way to build up a portfolio from a choice of more than 40 offshore funds covering equity , bond , cash , managed and regionally specialist ; Capital Choice , a single premium bond ; Flexi Saver , a tax efficient savings plan ; Maxi Saver , particularly suitable for British expatriates ; Professional Portfolio , an individual portfolio ; Wealth Protector , which combines a discretionary trust with a choice of investment plans ; Keyholder , a scheme designed to ease international property purchase ; and Pension Plus , a flexible retirement plan that has important potential tax advantages for the returning UK expatriate . |
| 14 | The prehistory of Islay is not easily understood and one must use a great deal of imagination to build up a picture from what has been learnt by Investigation and excavation , bearing in mind that isolated pieces of evidence may be entirely unrepresentative of the normal life of the community . |
| 15 | ‘ I called the NRA and they sent someone down to soak up the oil from the surface with sheets of foam . |
| 16 | The figures for deaths from leukaemia seem to back up the prediction from dose estimates that something very serious happened at Windscale in 1957 . |
| 17 | ‘ This is a very painful move for us , but we do n't want to wake up a year from now and wish we had n't done it , ’ Next founder Steve Jobs told United Press International . |
| 18 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 19 | So I was in the port , running around trying to charge up a card from the outlets , and none of them were working I was putting in my ID , and the authority for the credit , and the screen would say |
| 20 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 21 | Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent . |
| 22 | Urban violence and civil unrest were mushrooming like small bombs threatening to blow up the machine from within . |
| 23 | Bobby expects to make up a party from the works and we shall come along for an hour or two . ’ |
| 24 | But Soviet deputy farm minister N Averyanov said they would find it difficult to make up the deficit from imports because of the lack of hard currency . |
| 25 | To get maximum benefit in making your diet easy , speedy and healthy , obtain your dietary fibre from a wide range of cereal , fruit and vegetable foods rather than seeking to make up the total from just one or two very fibre-rich foods . |
| 26 | They decided that , in addition to the traditional , and largely vain , efforts to curb drug production , there is an urgent need to step up the offensive from the other end of the drugs trail . |