Example sentences of "and [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |
| 2 | You ask for a chair and four telephone directories and rig up an impromptu table near the only plug — and ask all your prospective clients to turn their heads around . |
| 3 | Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs . |
| 4 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 5 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 6 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
| 7 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |
| 8 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
| 9 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
| 10 | When cheques are cashed a transfer is automatically made from the deposit account to meet the payment and make up the current account to £20 . |
| 11 | These two lie close together , and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum . |
| 12 | We reached the much photographed Nape 's Needle and skimmed up the short , yet difficult , chimney of boot-worn rock . |
| 13 | The kick is performed by starting from a natural stance and bringing up the right leg , bent and to the side . |
| 14 | In a desperately competitive climate , where anyone bright and competent could go down the road and pick up a better paid job with kinder hours and more congenial working conditions from someone like British Telecom , the railways ran a service dependent on people who belonged to a narrow and inbred working culture , with outdated procedures of training and promotion , and an institutional reliance on overtime working , whose wholly disgraceful dimensions are symbolised by the fact that maximum weekly hours were only recently cut to 72 hours a week . |
| 15 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
| 16 | And obviously that you can do , but it takes time , it 's quicker just to walk into a travel agent and pick up a cheap bargain . |
| 17 | Now I lean forward and pick up a dead bird whose wings sag open like a fan or like the streets of Berlin under their cam nets . |
| 18 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
| 19 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |
| 20 | I mean when we 're walking we are actually falling the whole time , but insects are not like that , they do n't stand on three and pick up the other three . |
| 21 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
| 22 | The tuna fish swim beneath schools of dolphins , fishermen do not discriminate and scoop up the whole lot in their nets . |
| 23 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 24 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 25 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |
| 26 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 27 | The beauty of working on location is that so much is experienced , there is the constant interaction with the people and environment , and a constant stream of information filters into the subconscious and builds up an intuitive feeling and empathy for the country , culture and language , which ultimately influenced my drawings . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm going to shower , ’ Ruth told him , getting to her feet and gathering up the dirty glasses which littered th table-top . |
| 29 | just lay into the bag with fast punch and kick sequences , moving around all the time and building up a good sweat . |
| 30 | They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region . |