Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little room seemed to conjure up a scene from the past , an almost timeless memory . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm just popping into town to pick up a parcel from the station . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Anna put down her coffee mug , stubbed out her cigarette , lit another , then stretched to pick up a book from her bedside-table . |
| 5 | It is very easy to pick up a meaning from a metaphor which was perhaps not the one intended . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Bobby expects to make up a party from the works and we shall come along for an hour or two . ’ |