Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 2 | mm just been to pick up a chap you see for the dance , you know across the |
| 3 | ‘ Just been clearing up a bit . ’ |
| 4 | Horse owners meanwhile are setting up a new ’ Horse Watch ’ scheme . |
| 5 | I can see that you 'll soon be picking up the reins . |
| 6 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 7 | Surveys have shown that Britain has lost around 100,000 miles of hedges since 1945 and that about 4,000 miles are still being dug up every year . |
| 8 | What follows thereafter is building up the knowledge and experience of all those things that will enable us to identify , plan and implement improvements to our business . |
| 9 | But I could n't remember where the turn off was to come up the scenic route . |
| 10 | The Ranthambhore Foundation claims that reserve officials have also been covering up the scale of the problem for fear of being accused of failing in their duties . |
| 11 | Probably be , the next bill you get will probably be bumped up a bit , because you 've had the heating on , yeah . |
| 12 | MOST self-respecting museum directors will now be counting up the takings from the holiday season . |
| 13 | Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station . |
| 14 | They are structured in such a way that while we feel our way visually into the space suggested by the subject our eyes are simultaneously being run up the picture by short thrusts in and out of a limited pictorial depth . |
| 15 | The kids in the band whose guitar it really was set up a look-out in The Roebuck and , of course , they spotted him . |
| 16 | See you might even be starting up the classes . |
| 17 | And , in true dramatic irony , the most apt piece of rhetoric comes from Rita who could well be summing up the everlasting appeal of the Russell classic as she tries to tempt Frank out to an evening at the local theatre : |
| 18 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 19 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 20 | We should n't be picking up the tab . |
| 21 | It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked . |
| 22 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 23 | All you have to do then is to take up the handles maintaining line tension , and either take two steps backwards smartly or pull the arms backwards and downwards in a smooth tugging action to set the kite aloft . |
| 24 | Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree ? |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you certainly are clearing up a number of problems in prehistory for us . |
| 26 | We will therefore be setting up a short-life , intensive research project to look at over-assessment , both to identity good practice and to review and reiterate work already done ( for example , in the Innovative Approaches to Assessment Project reported in Update 11 ) . |