Example sentences of "up [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 2 | The recent Antarctic Treaty meeting [ see ED no. 41/42 ] pointed up the lack of research so far carried out . |
| 3 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 4 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 5 | A final chance to pick up the kind of luxuries not often seen on sale nowadays . |
| 6 | The Earl 's Wood secure unit for young offenders is certainly no hotel — but staying here can clock up the kind of bills more usually seen at the Ritz . |
| 7 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |
| 8 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 9 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 10 | The final straw was when the government put up the price of rice yet again . |
| 11 | AN AERIAL spectacular will light up the skies above Derry today . |
| 12 | Then , while the right hand wrote on , it conjured up the pack of cigarettes once again , conjured one out , and conjured a flame out of a butane lighter it suddenly turned out to be holding . |
| 13 | Go higher up the chain of command only if the boss 's behaviour is affecting the rest of the staff . |
| 14 | He sat down and picked up the sheaf of papers neatly set out on the top of his desk . |
| 15 | Well , no , not really Ma'am , there were still charts to plot , and observations to send to Group , and instruments to read — and the unspoken implication , ever present , was that we were Grade 2 technicians , and if she wanted to make up the numbers on parade surely she could find a few more pen-pushers in nine-to-five jobs ? |
| 16 | In drawing up the list of activities below we have aimed to recommend programmes of study that reinforce the links between English and drama , and between English and media education , which we seek to emphasise throughout this Report as well as in chapters 8 and 9. • We see role-play as a valuable means of broadening pupils ' mental and emotional horizons and of developing social and personal confidence : it provides an ideal medium for much of the exploratory and/or performance-based elements of programmes of study . |
| 17 | He has drawn up the list of items below . |
| 18 | He broke off , picking up the list of pilots once again . |
| 19 | When he was a couple of streets away from the pensione Aldo tore up the letter into pieces as small as he could manage and dropped them in the gutter . |
| 20 | From Sicily they sailed up the coastline to Venice together . |
| 21 | Independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies , ( The structure of alcohol taxes : a hangover from the past , 1990 ) and the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between alcoholic drinks : and analysis , 1991 ) has shown that , for instance , it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits and levelling up the duty on wine so that all alcohol is taxed at the same rate . |
| 22 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 23 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 24 | And their mother had screwed up the tube of toothpaste so tightly that the lid would n't budge . |
| 25 | Use a little royal icing to cement the two pieces of roof on to the sloping sides of the house , propping up the eaves with toothpicks too if necessary . |
| 26 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 27 | Some of the workers in Glasgow , he said , had already decided to relocate to the Midlands to take up the offer of employment there . |
| 28 | The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked . |
| 29 | Deciding now to take up the practice of law again , Herbert thought that the best opening would be to build up a country practice . |
| 30 | Cut the pipe and clean up the ends of pipe inside and out . |