Example sentences of "they [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They crept up the back staircase to the third floor , testing each tread for creaks before stepping on it , nightclothes bunched in one hand lest they trip . |
| 2 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 3 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 4 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 5 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 6 | The only certain starting point was that the opera would have a Swiss theme , in common with Cheltenham 's International Music Festival , of which the project was part.That aside , they made up the script as they went along . |
| 7 | About the same time , for whatever reason , that the cops , they stitched up the Weasel — who would almost collapse at fat Phillis 's tap , her grave face and hand upon his shoulder — Anton went for a piss . |
| 8 | They read up the transport laws at university and all that transport and everything . |
| 9 | The next Friday they load up the bus and set off for Oxford . |
| 10 | And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters . |
| 11 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 12 | They make up a group of institutions which has been described as the ‘ third force ’ in higher education , alongside the universities and polytechnics , and are known variously as colleges of higher education , institutes of higher education , colleges of education or just plain colleges . |
| 13 | Ultimate control in a company rests in its members ; they make up the company . |
| 14 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
| 15 | They make up the rest of their programme by choosing two options from Advanced Performance , All-round Performance , Performance , Analytical Theory , Composition , Studies in Polyphony , Popular Music in Contemporary America , or a Special Topic . |
| 16 | Derby paid £800,000 for the England under-21 international with fellow strikers Phil Gee and Ian Ormondroyd moving to Filbert Street as they make up the rest of the deal . |
| 17 | I like the way they splice on their headstocks ( almost invisibly underneath the headstock facing ) but not the way they make up the depth of the heel with a very different-coloured piece of mahogany — although I suppose some people might . |
| 18 | Because women live longer , they make up the majority of the very elderly population requiring care , and they in turn look to their daughters and other female relatives . |
| 19 | They make up the words themselves , right |
| 20 | They make up an order . |
| 21 | They make up an archive of incalculable value . |
| 22 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 23 | They pick up a calculator , and everybody 's got those these days . |
| 24 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 25 | and the they pick up the text in that way . |
| 26 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 27 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 28 | The lacewing 's ears are at the base of each forewing , and cause the wings to fold whenever they pick up the bats ' echolocating sounds . |
| 29 | They sometimes fancy they pick up the voices of the past , answering their prayers , and after presenting their gifts of flowers and fruit , they come away filled with hope that the great loas have agreed to grant whatever they were being implored to do . |
| 30 | So there 's no , even talking if necessary , once they get onto the fire engine , they pick up the receiver then and book-on mobile which tells the Control where they are going , and once at the situation then the conversation is done by , by radio telephone . |