Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
| 2 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 3 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 4 | I 'm going to write up a suggested arrangement on the board now . |
| 5 | The task did n't stop here — Fiona also had to write up a detailed log of the trip , complete with samples , photographs and complex scientific data showing when the river had high and low tides and why it flowed in a certain direction . |
| 6 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 7 | It probably was n't practical to rig up a short tape belay and , in any case , the climbers felt they were down , with the climbing virtually finished . |
| 8 | I was thinking about life , the universe and how much I liked Kim Carnes 's voice ( a voice that makes you regret moving to filter cigarettes ) on the tape-deck when I began to conjure up a mental picture of Billy Tuckett . |
| 9 | This idea of Elena as the colleague in leadership of Nicolae Ceauşescu led the poet , Ion Gheorghe , to conjure up a mystical vision of Elena as part of a ‘ trinity ’ , whose ‘ three dimensions ’ were Nicolae Ceauşescu , herself and the fatherland , of which she was mother . |
| 10 | There must be a myriad ruses and devices in the pursuit of happiness , and I could think of none in order to conjure up a complementary question . |
| 11 | So it is n't a bad idea at this stage of the season for us to conjure up a few exercises to test receding intellectual fibre . |
| 12 | There 's a certain amount of history because the moon is if if the earth is spinning round the moon is going round the water that the moon is attracting will be rushing to catch up a little bit . |
| 13 | Our intention was to fly low level VFR into French airspace , climb onto airways VFR , then , as we were expecting to catch up a cold front around Limoges , refile IFR and continue to our destination expecting an IFR approach with a reported cloud base of 600 to 800 ft . |
| 14 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 15 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 16 | But in a cold , late spring I find it difficult if not impossible to work up a good tilth in time for mangolds . |
| 17 | In a cold , late spring it may prove difficult to graze off the rye in time to work up a good tilth for mangolds . |
| 18 | The stockings on Christmas morning are always full of useful things ( Clarissa 's includes Pond 's Cold Cream and tights ) , then after church the family goes for a long walk to work up a hearty appetite for dinner . |
| 19 | In wet areas , weeds and turf re-root and grow quickly and it is not easy to work up a clean tilth unless they are well buried and allowed to rot . |
| 20 | How long do we try to patch up a failing plan ? |
| 21 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 22 | Welcome back : An MP is asking the Government to clean up a major tourist area , used for years as an industrial waste dump . |
| 23 | AN £8 MILLION grant will be used to clean up a disused tin mine which turned an estuary red with pollution . |
| 24 | With his latest movie , Henry & June , Philip Kaufman slightly varies this mix of spices to serve up a soft-focus hash of Sex and Literature in Paris , 1931 . |
| 25 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 26 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 27 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 28 | Wheelchair athlete Ian Hayden from Sutton Courtenay near Abingdon overcame an arm injury to pick up a second silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Barcelona . |
| 29 | She walked over to the pond and bent to pick up a small pebble , skimming it across the glittering water , watching the way it bounced , then sank , leaving behind it only ripples . |
| 30 | But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite . |