Example sentences of "up a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 5 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Petty sessions throw up a few cases , but not many . |
| 8 | However , the job had to be done , and our training asserting itself , we began to pic up a few bits and pieces . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This huge chamber is reached by a short spiral staircase which leads up a few feet beyond the gallery door in room 64 . |
| 11 | Rushie picked up a few lira and an Armani suit but it 's probably fair to say our golden boy from St Asaph did n't exactly win the freedom of Turin . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Clear up a few unsolveds , eh sir ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Practise reading it and think up a few sentences to explain why you have chosen it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Once you can keep this up a few times , then you are juggling . |
| 21 | Mike come up a few times . |
| 22 | Surely it could not take this long to gather up a few baskets of food ? |
| 23 | When she when she does get up a few octaves , I cringe . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | Mala 's vigorous snort stirred up a few echoes , but no one looked around . |
| 26 | Black , rather coarse , straight hairs are most plentiful ; then there were finer , dark-brown hairs on the jacket and shirt ; finally , we picked up a few animal hairs almost certainly from a cat . ’ |
| 27 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 28 | Chase up a few stories . |
| 29 | Cardiff foreshore turned up a few conger and codling . |
| 30 | Maybe if we set up a few committees , something will happen . ’ |