Example sentences of "up a few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere along the road , she had picked up a few extra senses , and she would have to learn to live with them . |
| 2 | ‘ It is unlikely that we would sue the government — in fact , we might even pick up a few extra funds on the back of theirs . |
| 3 | Whether this moderate tower in St Enoch 's Square will do more than brighten up a few central shopping streets remains to be seen . |
| 4 | Worm baits picked up a few small coalfish , codling and whiting . |
| 5 | Just far enough for a tongue , large as a palm leaf , red as mahogany , to lick up a few errant feathers . |
| 6 | She had cleared up a few worrying points about William Egan . |
| 7 | 9.00am Linda pops into the Savoury Delicatessen in Clapham High Street to pick up a few essential items . |
| 8 | All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space . |
| 9 | She had to lift up a few loose strands from her neck when Lowell fastened the beads . ’ |
| 10 | Searching the cloaks turns up a few loose buttons and an Imperial silver shilling . |
| 11 | In the library where Ianthe worked the approach of Christmas had made itself felt , though it would be too much to say that any particularly Christmas spirit or noticeable increase of goodwill could be discerned , even though Shirley had hung up a few coloured paper chains . |
| 12 | Oxford manager Brian Horton had drawn up a few special plans for Villa one of them was this free kick which hit the post . |
| 13 | She picked up a few more guns from corpses , and did n't feel naked any more . |
| 14 | The car , however , had picked up a few more dents , and none of the windows existed any longer . |
| 15 | The physicists who felt they had left their successors with little more to do than to clean up a few minor problems expressed the same mood as August Schleicher , who was sure that ancient Aryans had talked exactly the putative language which he had reconstructed for them . |
| 16 | The idea of race opened up a few humorous possibilities . |
| 17 | These rugged limestone reef hills are not really typical of the dark , rolling peaty landscape of the Pennines , but even the gritstone moors have managed to throw up a few fine hills . |
| 18 | And their third album , which is actually untitled , should do even better now that they have notched up a few hit singles to go along with the hit album . |