Example sentences of "up [art] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She picked up the phone before it could ring twice , and spoke softly into the mouthpiece .
2 Pick up the phone before it is too late
3 Pick up the phone before it is too late .
4 ‘ It 's your brother , ’ he said , holding up the phone so she could see that he was pressing the mute button .
5 ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’
6 Er I suggest you pick up the phone and you give us a call now on , alright ?
7 That 's it yes ah I 'm connected with you I am on a cerebral plane connected with you our brains our interlinked you reach down you pick up the phone and you ring now .
8 So , between friends lost and friends forgotten , he was very much alone this Saturday night , and picked up the phone when it rang with some gratitude .
9 Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down .
10 She come up the weekend but she did n't come over cos I was n't very well , and I 'd of .
11 Jonathan wanted us to put ours up the weekend and I thought well
12 Here , let me help you pick up the bedding and we 'll take it downstairs .
13 But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of
14 We went back up the staircase and I hammered on the door .
15 We are also accountable through the press and local radio in terms that all our work , unlike many other professional bodies , all our work is constantly on show and critics are invited to see and assess and attend and write up the work that we fund , and those criticisms appear in local and regional press daily .
16 It zips up the back and its only feature is a nose-shaped crease with a couple of little nostril slits at the base .
17 I let Brownie out went up the back and there was Brownie in the Malone River then he saw me so no lead with me
18 Her hair 's tied up the back and it 's got on .
19 He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all .
20 I think the main thing is there 's about six hours sort of realistically speaking of really good quality hours to be on your B M S set during the day , and just to sort of add up the hours that you are actually on the phone making outgoing calls , sort of brings it home to you .
21 It is often useful for the helper to introduce the notion of the normality of having both difficult and sad thoughts about the deceased person and then from there the bereaved person can pick up the conversation if he or she wants to do so .
22 Roger Lawson , Institute vice-president , summed up the mood when he told delegates that ‘ the days when accountants in industry and business were criticised , at times justifiably , as beancounters , are over ’ .
23 One ambulanceman summed up the mood as he threw his hands up in disgust and muttered : ‘ Absolute rubbish .
24 ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono .
25 Camcorder microphones are contrary devices : sometimes they fail to pick up the sounds that they should , and sometimes they hear things that they should n't .
26 ‘ The county council has to make up the remainder but it has already limited the amount it intends to spend . ’
27 Doing the rooms in the morning fell into an easy rhythm — make the bed , tidy up anything the guests had left around , dust the tops , wash up the teacups if they 'd been used , clean the washbasin , put out fresh tea bags and sachets of coffee , sugar and milk powder , then go round with the Hoover .
28 If they do go ahead and put the application in , which I think they will , then , that 's the start of the process , so that 's a good time when we will need to really step up the campaign and we will get National speaker 's to meetings , we will get probably a petition , we will go round the area like we did over the er non funding , but we had to do something quickly , to , to make it clear , you know , we do n't want this to go ahead .
29 The NUS and several other student unions have also taken up the campaign and it is hoped that the campaign will extend beyond the student movement to trade unions and women 's groups .
30 My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go .
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