Example sentences of "it [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undramatic in its effect and narrow in its scope , highly forgettable and often forgotten by historians , it made up the bulk of parliamentary business . |
| 2 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 3 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 4 | When the paper was removed it lifted up the wax-ground where the pencil had been and exposed the metal . |
| 5 | ‘ It gobbled up the bird in one go , ’ said a mournful bird-watcher yesterday . |
| 6 | Hello my name 's Winsy insy spider climb up the spout , down came the rain and washed Winsy out , when the sun came out it dried up the rain , insy , winsy spider climbed up again thank you , oh thank you , oh thank you , I know , thank you , well , today , at midday today it 's going to be tipping down with rain and winsy , winsy , winsy , spider will fall down the rain , |
| 7 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 8 | Their colonization of Brazil was even more momentous since it opened up a source which during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led the world in the production of gold . |
| 9 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 10 | Such a practice eventually attracted the suspicion and hostility of Parliament ; it opened up the possibility of the monarch exercising a substantial ‘ pay-roll ’ influence over Parliament itself . |
| 11 | Those advocating power boards found this argument especially persuasive , since it opened up the possibility of continued cooperation between the two sides of the industry at regional level , and of the continued joint use of common services . |
| 12 | I lost a lot of pictures , but it opened up the night-time for me and I felt that the mood came out . |
| 13 | Coming so soon after the fiasco of Barricades Week , it opened up the prospect of new opportunities in foreign policy and reinforced a determination on de Gaulle 's part to liquidate the Algerian problem as soon as possible , even at the expense of major concessions to the FLN and its government-in-exile , the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic or GPRA . |
| 14 | and he got it turned up a bit and sounds bloody from the other room |
| 15 | It turned up a year later , all rewritten but basically identical , as a PhD at San Diego . |
| 16 | It showed up the Achilles heel of the government — its excessively dictatorial tendencies . |
| 17 | This exercise was perhaps most illuminating in the way in which it showed up the nerve ( or lack of it ) of the existing contractors ’ managements ; and the results demonstrated the inherent impossibility of combining apparently objective cash criteria with inevitably subjective judgements of quality . |
| 18 | It broke up the crew and left the cameraman shaking underneath his camera . |
| 19 | ‘ When I bought this hat , I 'd just had a horrible haircut so it covered up the mistake nicely . ’ |
| 20 | But I mean it brought up a lot of things that we perhaps |
| 21 | The train consisted of Cambrian 4-wheelers headed by a ‘ Seaham ’ class 2-4-0 and it proceeded up the Tanat Valley . |
| 22 | And then it eased up a bit at dinner time and then it started again about two o'clock . |
| 23 | It took up a lot of space , but the facts were few . |
| 24 | In 1908 the Standard was not printing photographs and , although it took up the art form in the 1920 's and it is a curiosity to learn that the first photograph it published to do with the Club was in fact of the Opening Match , but 50 years after the event . |
| 25 | The bottom end of the rope was fixed to the back of the van and it took up the slack and held the tree in tension to give the saw ease of movement . |
| 26 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 27 | It lit up every corner of London , the great houses of the rich , and the miserable homes of the poor . |
| 28 | It lit up the night sky above the East End of Glasgow like a burning city that was never consumed , every night flaring up again and again with a distant tumult of mountains of slag and iron , drinking the cold air and casting their baleful glow on the clouds that spread over the Valley of Pandemonium . |
| 29 | Having done this , I noticed all the more the effect of the pale light coming into the room and the way it lit up the edges of my father 's craggy , lined , still awesome features . |
| 30 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |