Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |
| 2 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 3 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 4 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 5 | If we attempt to sum up the character of these innovations , we must say that they are practical but unprincipled . |
| 6 | I call the subject ‘ Jesus — our pioneer ’ because that seems to sum up the thrust of the idea . |
| 7 | It is difficult to sum up the succession of kings and sub kings who schemed and killed their way to brief spells of power — eight of them in one century — or to keep in steady perspective the shifting boundaries and aspirations of petty earldoms and self-proclaimed kingdoms . |
| 8 | If we delay making a decision about an interpretation we can allow later , high-scoring information to pull up the score of the earlier element . |
| 9 | The IMF takes West Germany to task for failing to shake up the supply-side of its arthritic economy . |
| 10 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 11 | In the UK , with only around 100 TBs on the register , the phrase ‘ that fast French aeroplane ’ is much more likely to conjure up a picture of the faithful Robin DR400 , a lovely aircraft but one which is in an altogether different class . |
| 12 | It was more difficult — and more intriguing — to conjure up a picture of her future husband , Dom João . |
| 13 | A well-known example is the motif in Schubert 's Erlkönig , which combines perfectly with the dashing octave triplets to conjure up a picture of the father 's wild gallop , with his dying son in his arms : |
| 14 | It has been one of the cliches of modern liberalism , since at least the time of de Tocqueville and the younger Mill , to dwell on the possible , even probable , disjunction between democracy and liberty , to stress the fact that popular rule does not necessarily imply personal freedom , and to conjure up the spectacle of the " tyranny of the majority " . |
| 15 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 16 | The first cassation seems to conjure up the beauty of music in a summer garden at night . |
| 17 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 18 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 19 | This is partly because the word itself tends to conjure up the picture of performing some type of vigorous sport . |
| 20 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 21 | Somehow the words ‘ dietary fibre ’ do tend to conjure up an image of being put out to graze on food that has all the comfort and flavour of that consumed by a sheep or a cow . |
| 22 | In an effort to tighten up the administration of poor relief the Local Government Board issued a circular in 1871 to the effect that outdoor relief should not be granted to the able-bodied widow with one child . |
| 23 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 24 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 25 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 26 | Granny-Liz would always stop fanning herself to drink up a glass of iced water . |
| 27 | In 1848 , Engels had viewed Europe as a general , deploying as his armies subject peoples to lock up the gendarme of Europe , Tsarist Russia . |
| 28 | ‘ The question of whether we 're going to clean up the environment of this country is long over , ’ he told a press conference . |
| 29 | Here in the UK , we have to clean up the image of our Rottweilers , which has been so tarnished in recent years . |
| 30 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |