Example sentences of "the [noun] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your husband probably senses that you do n't admire or respect him and he obviously does n't trust you , which is why he pulled the drawbridge up a long time ago . |
| 2 | Callers were told to enter the building up a back staircase , avoiding the downstairs shop , which had no connection with the parlour . |
| 3 | I had the hair up a bit and I liked Siouxsie & The Banshees — does that make me a goth ? ’ |
| 4 | took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the |
| 5 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 6 | White Papers on the privatisation of British Coal and the setting up a national lottery are also expected . |
| 7 | Treaty by setting up a company within the meaning of article 58 , whereas in this case the very right of nationals of other member states to take part in the setting up a company in the United Kingdom is restricted by the residence requirement . |
| 8 | ( Incidentally , a comment in the Promontoire hut book by the last British party to note their presence a year ago recorded laconically , the rewards for following Brailsford and Collomb in their first choice route to the hut up a series of Grade II chimneys : the last pitch is the drain for the outside toilet ! ) . |
| 9 | And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them . |
| 10 | I went into the garden and I found the cat up a tree . |
| 11 | The fire had at last begun to warm the room up a bit , and the brandy was warming him up inside , and Preston was suddenly feeling terribly , terribly randy . |
| 12 | Projet de Gauche and Projet de Droite ( e1 and E2 5b respectively ) push the grade up a bit and , like the excellent Excelsior ( E25c,5c ) , both finish with tricky walls . |
| 13 | What the audience sees in Jonathan Miller 's production and Stefanos Lazaridis 's designs , is not the Great California Forest of Puccini 's imagination ; instead , mining-trucks and rail- tracks lead the eye up a steep rake to slag-heaps and a slate-grey sky , driving home forcefully the misery of the miner 's existence ( like Miller , Maazel has great respect for Puccini 's treatment of the individual in the mob-situation ) . |
| 14 | He flattened out and chased the German up a wooded valley . |
| 15 | At its highest point , a turn to the right up a pathless incline leads to the subsidiary height of pike which has two cairns ; from here the route , still pathless , heads due south , passing the three Whernside Tarns and rises to join a wall coming up from the left , this being kept alongside to the summit . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , Dorothy , I hired you because I thought you might shake the place up a bit , so if you are unhappy here , that 's at least partly my fault . |
| 17 | But when she had asked if they could n't warm the place up a bit with some pretty colors , Dr. Briant had said sharply that they had to avoid confusing their color appreciation tests later , and she 'd have all the color she wanted then . |
| 18 | Might freshen the place up a bit , thought Nelly , stepping out into the storm . |
| 19 | We usually have to queue up in the rain because Mr Barnes — our ‘ Supa-Tuta ’ — keeps the door locked until his arrival , to prevent vandalism ( although there are those who think that a spot of creative vandalism would smarten the place up a bit ! ) . |
| 20 | But he could n't enlighten them : he only had orders to ‘ paint the place up a bit ’ . |
| 21 | He would walk in a day before a College hop and say , ‘ Good heavens : We must tart the place up a bit . |
| 22 | Those young people , well , they did talk a bit loudly and show off , but they always had a smile and a pleasant word , and they did brighten the place up a bit , you could n't deny it . |
| 23 | We need a bit of posh to tart the place up a bit . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Cheer the place up a bit , you mean ? ’ |
| 25 | I clambered up into the loft , all sunlight and warmth and smelling of old and interesting books , and I decided to clear the place up a bit . |
| 26 | Most of the concrete has gone and er well we tried to tidy the place up a little bit . |
| 27 | Mind you , I had to muscle the zebra up a bit and add the stripes , but the ominous power , the feeling of danger was pure Stubbs . |
| 28 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 29 | Well it might put the price up a bit the , yeah , who 's that with them ? |
| 30 | If the risk of this happening leaves the prosecutor up a gum tree , it is apparent that the Crown Prosecution Service may have an interest in ensuring that something has been done prior to trial to remove the need for a dock identification , whether the police can see a use for one or not . |