Example sentences of "i [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
2 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
3 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
4 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
5 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
6 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
7 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
8 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
9 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
10 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
11 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
12 | Trevor was not the sort of fellow who said , ‘ For art 's sake have I broken up the bar . ’ |
13 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
14 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
15 | I bring up the subject of music . |
16 | I bring up the others , cooling all the while , before we flounder over to the descent rake and back to the house . |
17 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
18 | And then I goes up the shute . |
19 | A couple of grey and white winter-plumage black guillemots — called tysties in Shetland — complete the picture , and I wind up the window and move on . |
20 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
21 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
22 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
23 | I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one . |
24 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
25 | I ca n't write much this time because I 'm so near to coming home that my hand shakes every time I pick up a pen . |
26 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
27 | I know what a flea and a slug look like , I do n't want to be frightened to death every time I pick up the packet . |
28 | I pick up the ‘ Glass Dildo ’ photo again and this time I am struck by Cicciolina 's expressiveness . |
29 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
30 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |