Example sentences of "up [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The WI were magnificent and provided thousands of lunches ; the Red Cross picked up the few casualties and stragglers ; and children along the route played welcome hosepipes on the passing riders .
2 ‘ Scurrying round to pick up the few crumbs that fall from the table ? ’
3 Iskandara picked up the few envelopes and looked at them disinterestedly .
4 SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies .
5 As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes .
6 The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground .
7 I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper .
8 You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice .
9 The Down 's Syndrome Association desperately need volunteers to give up a few hours before or after work on Thursday June 24 to help them collect donations at mainline stations .
10 Petty sessions throw up a few cases , but not many .
11 However , the job had to be done , and our training asserting itself , we began to pic up a few bits and pieces .
12 Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges .
13 This huge chamber is reached by a short spiral staircase which leads up a few feet beyond the gallery door in room 64 .
14 ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know !
15 ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’
16 Clear up a few unsolveds , eh sir ? ’
17 So it is n't a bad idea at this stage of the season for us to conjure up a few exercises to test receding intellectual fibre .
18 Practise reading it and think up a few sentences to explain why you have chosen it .
19 Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on .
20 I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market .
21 I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me .
22 Once you can keep this up a few times , then you are juggling .
23 Mike come up a few times .
24 Surely it could not take this long to gather up a few baskets of food ?
25 When she when she does get up a few octaves , I cringe .
26 ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great .
27 Mala 's vigorous snort stirred up a few echoes , but no one looked around .
28 I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube .
29 Chase up a few stories .
30 Maybe if we set up a few committees , something will happen . ’
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