Example sentences of "i [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ? |
2 | And I back up the line I had to go . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
5 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
6 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
7 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
8 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
9 | Trevor was not the sort of fellow who said , ‘ For art 's sake have I broken up the bar . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Nathan and I bring up the rear , and soon we are alone , with Nathan buried beneath the nylon sledge cover . |
12 | I bring up the subject of music . |
13 | I bring up the others , cooling all the while , before we flounder over to the descent rake and back to the house . |
14 | ‘ Can you manage to get up to the house under your own steam while I bring up the food ? ’ |
15 | And then I goes up the shute . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements , I loped up the grassy knoll to the court . |
18 | I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths . |
19 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
20 | I rode up the Via Pendo and I saw one . |
21 | ‘ 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | I pick up the ‘ Glass Dildo ’ photo again and this time I am struck by Cicciolina 's expressiveness . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |
28 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
29 | I pick up the scissors because I 'm alone in the shop and if he touches me again he 'll leave without something he came in with , when the bell goes on the door and this other boy in a city suit comes in , boring yuppie sort . |
30 | Erm yeah , the the the axe to grind is is yes , I pick up the the the political stick here er , that was you know , that that , you know from the other the other end to you and yeah , yes I also think we 're being beaten with a with a with a stick here for three R's er , if we 're forced into the corner of having to use an ignorant white hall idiots er |