Example sentences of "and [vb base] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cut in a tee at this point , and connect up the new runs . |
| 3 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
| 4 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These two lie close together , and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum . |
| 9 | 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Telecom , the railways ran a service dependent on people who belonged to a narrow and inbred working culture , with outdated procedures of training and promotion , and an institutional reliance on overtime working , whose wholly disgraceful dimensions are symbolised by the fact that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 . |
| 10 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
| 17 | I could then walk much faster and push up the average daily mileage . |
| 18 | By using computers to integrate the information from a large number of different viewpoints round the skull , it is possible to visualize the appearance of a slice through the brain and build up a full three-dimensional image . |
| 19 | and and erm a and build up a little bit of er text on just how good we are , and what we can produce , and how well equipped we are . |
| 20 | If you are going to be away from work for a period in the future , you will have to pay the full rate when you return to paid employment , so it might be as well to start now , and build up the maximum benefit . |
| 21 | Chairman Reacher , who admitted last weekend that he had already started contemplating life without Brian , added : ‘ We are going to get this club back on the rails and climb up the Premier League . |
| 22 | I scramble down a muddy , leaf-littered bank and into a chilly stream at the bottom ; it flows over one boot and I whisper , ‘ Shit ’ and squelch up the far bank , holding onto the cold branches of bushes and the mud-slimy roots of trees . |
| 23 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 24 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 25 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 26 | I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates . |
| 27 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 28 | try and speak up a little bit because we 've still got the tapes going . |
| 29 | Working on entirely different design principles , each successfully publicised their stunters to capture public attention in the mid 1970s and open up a new wave of enthusiasm . |
| 30 | Answer guide : Reduce the bank column by £100 and open up a new asset column for the new asset , a desk , and put £100 in that column . |