Example sentences of "[to-vb] up the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 2 | The nonchalant dismissal of the worth of Birmingham by Jane Austen 's Mrs Elton seems to sum up the attitudes of many people towards the city . |
| 3 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 4 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 5 | Zuwaya nearly always used ‘ Arab government ’ to compare their present unfavourably with the past , to sum up the virtues of a golden age : heroism and independence , autonomy , fraternal solidarities , an absence of hierarchy . |
| 6 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 7 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |
| 8 | This can be done in a variety of ways , but researchers are unanimous that it is essential to write up the events of a day before going to bed at night , or , at the very latest , the following morning . |
| 9 | It does not take much imagination to conjure up the kinds of arguments that EDF will introduce should it wish to inhibit serious competition to itself . |
| 10 | ‘ Unfortunately , I shall have to patch up the results of your mistakes ! |
| 11 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 12 | Chopra stared at the space station , trying to pick up the memories of a past age . |
| 13 | Expecting a word processor operator to pick up the elements of design , typography and layout skills by simply going on a two-day course is just not realistic . |
| 14 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 15 | The basic framework of that popular culture was fairly obvious for urban workers not only lived close together in distinctive communities but had also begun to pick up the rudiments of an education and they had both savings and time to spare . |
| 16 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 17 | Fernando Trueba 's flamboyant Euro-thriller stars Jeff Goldblum as Dan Gillis , a latter-day American in Paris attempting to pick up the pieces of a failed marriage , approached with an offer to write a screenplay for charismatic first-time director Malcolm ( Dexter Fletcher ) . |
| 18 | Consequently the daughter is left to pick up the pieces of the havoc caused by the strain of raised blood-pressure and general anxiety the next day . |
| 19 | And the look in her eye says Jill Morrell and John McCarthy have managed to pick up the pieces of their love |
| 20 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 21 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 22 | They were the lucky ones , able to pick up the pieces of a warm family life that they feared had gone forever . |
| 23 | Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’ |
| 24 | Trying to pick up the pieces of his life , he says his experiences have made it difficult for him to trust anybody . |
| 25 | Husband took off his blue-tinted glasses and polished them on a silk handkerchief chosen to pick up the colours of both his suit and his tie . |
| 26 | You go on to pick up the beginnings of the Water of Nevis and the homeward leg . |
| 27 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |
| 28 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 29 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 30 | She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life . |