Example sentences of "with [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often we are faced with clamouring up the slippery slopes to the law more than sliding down them . |
| 2 | In any case , the argument was quite remote from Lenin 's preoccupation with binding up the wounds of national estrangement . |
| 3 | The assembly , charged with drawing up a new constitution , could pave the way for political pluralism . |
| 4 | The National Assembly 's constitutional commission , charged with drawing up a full new ( large ) constitution , began work on Nov. 17 . |
| 5 | I 've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice ; I 've learnt a lot and I 'm convinced it 's possible . ’ |
| 6 | In a move to tighten control of a far-reaching empire and to improve the group 's own image , Maurice and Charles Saatchi , credited with building up the company , have stepped down from the day-to-day running of the group . |
| 7 | The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted . |
| 8 | Again this is not a view which has been endorsed by all , but it does provide an explanation as to why the government 's proposed reforms are largely confined to measures concerned with speeding up the investigatory process and making existing policy more efficient . |
| 9 | With positive support from her colleagues , Lynda has been able to successfully combine a career with bringing up a family . |
| 10 | We have found it to be the ideal way of combining pursuit of a career in medicine with bringing up a family . |
| 11 | To that should be added a familiarity with the commonest ways of symbolising sounds ; a dictionary user faced with looking up a word whose spelling he does n't know , ought to be able to choose where to start looking for it , with a fair degree of success . |
| 12 | German minesweepers had also been sent to the Gulf to clear mines and two German navy planes were reportedly helping with cleaning up the oil slick there . |
| 13 | Not content with propping up the bar at the Rovers , the Inspiral Carpets , who have decided to call their latest meisterwerk ‘ Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ thought it would be a spiffing idea to promote aforementioned article with a series of displays in record shops featuring a fully inhabited fish tank . |
| 14 | Proceeded with tidying up the beach from MH4 eastwards . |
| 15 | The French won but it was a Pyrrhic victory and their victorious momentum was lost ; they contented themselves with sailing up the Ouse , burning settlements on the way and anchoring within sight of the town before they withdrew . |
| 16 | If you want to help , perhaps you 'd give Victorine a hand with washing up the breakfast things ? |
| 17 | We helped with putting up the shelves and we filled all the bottles in each shop . |
| 18 | Right , erm , very often it 's to do with making up a painting or a picture of some a picture of some kind is n't it , sticking different bits together , so if you get a , a collection of different things which makes a whole , whole with a w right . |
| 19 | In December the United Nations urged governments to get on with setting up a satellite system . |
| 20 | Alphonse Blaguet , a mediator appointed by President André Kolingba , was charged with setting up a preparatory committee , consulting with political parties and drawing up the agenda . |
| 21 | But so far , the first two episodes have been bogged down with setting up the premise and too many location scenes . |
| 22 | Pierre Encreve , a professor of linguistics , has been charged with setting up the new foundation , which will serve to fulfill Andre Chastel 's 1983 commitment to found an institute for the history of art and culture , on the lines of London 's Courtauld Institute . |
| 23 | Burstall and Kay report that in the case of NAEP early opposition from teacher unions was partly based upon fear of a backwash effect and , indeed , it appears to have been a worry for those involved with setting up the APU testing programme . |
| 24 | After all , she 's hit the headlines on numerous occasions , what with smashing up the inside of a taxi a couple of years ago and then being done for speeding twice in the space of about 15 minutes . |