Example sentences of "up [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marshal had made a point of checking on that because although the Florentines spent a small fortune on electronic locks , bars , security doors and burglar alarms they quite open pressed the switches and opened up the lot to anybody with the wit to ring the bell and call ‘ Telegramtne ! ’ |
| 2 | This is alright but it does tend to bunch up a lot when it 's pulled in close to the face . |
| 3 | He found that the canonry and the cathedral , and the administration in the university , took up a lot of time . |
| 4 | But , he maintains , if you do n't throw up a lot of worthless ideas you are unlikely to come up with sensible ones either . |
| 5 | It will mean giving up a lot , you know . ’ |
| 6 | It will mean giving up a lot and — ’ she gave the ghost of a smile — ‘ I know what that means . |
| 7 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 8 | Which is more than can be said , perhaps , for some of the offerings labelled Panto that are currently mopping up a lot of customers . |
| 9 | It 's not usual to make new partners put up a lot of cash . ’ |
| 10 | It can expect to pick up a lot of support both from mainstream Solidarity and from the squabbling peasants ' parties . |
| 11 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 12 | Clarissa had to summon up a lot of courage , but she rang Charity 's door bell . |
| 13 | On his release from prison in 1985 , Gusty Spence , the leader of the Shankill UVF and the man convicted of the Malvern St murder , was asked about Paisley 's role and he was frankly dismissive : ‘ I have no time for Paisley 's type of religious fervour or his politics but he had no involvement in re-forming the UVF though he stirred up a lot of tension at that time for his own ends . ’ |
| 14 | These avenues have not only taken up a lot of the time and energy of the present generation of activists but they have also reduced the reliance on the politics of the street demonstration by presenting alternative means of expression and action . |
| 15 | ‘ And he whistled up his cohorts after you 'd gone , ’ Sam complained , ‘ and they came with wet-suits and grappling irons and a heavy magnet and dredged up a lot of muck from the dock . |
| 16 | Quite apart from the publicity such incidents provided , they also tied up a lot of ships and manpower . |
| 17 | Such data management operations take up a lot of the computer 's operating time ; in a computer based on FRAMs they would be reduced to a minimum . |
| 18 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 19 | ‘ And when I was up in the tree , ’ she added , gazing up at him , ‘ I saw a thief climb into the Botanical Gardens and dig up a lot of bulbs and put them in a big case and go off with them ! ’ |
| 20 | In the five interesting events the detectors of UAI show a track in the central detector leading to a single cell in the electromagnetic calorimeter , which picks up a lot of energy . |
| 21 | ‘ Allie 's a good boy , but he dresses up a lot , does n't he ? ’ |
| 22 | I mean , if you 've got a fuzzy-sounding guitar running through everything it takes up a lot of space in the mix . |
| 23 | Without wanting to state the obvious , the SJ-20 is a big guitar that takes up a lot of room . |
| 24 | There is always the old technique of adjusting bridle length with an overhand hitch to shorten the line ; but for sport kites , the knot itself takes up a lot of line . |
| 25 | ‘ The reason we did a video for ‘ Dipping ’ was because it conjured up a lot of images . |
| 26 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 27 | ‘ If the middle tier marketed themselves better , they could pick up a lot of business . ’ |
| 28 | The problem was that we were firefighting not just for ourselves but for so many of our clients , and firefighting takes up a lot of time and emotionally is a strain . |
| 29 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 30 | ‘ Those hallucinogenics experiments certainly stirred up a lot of shit . ’ |