Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness .
2 three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out .
3 Much has been written on opening up a dialogue and creating collaboration on reading between home and school .
4 Justification had been the great theme of the Reformers , especially of Martin Luther , and Ritschl aimed to restore it to the centre of theology by drawing out its consequences and implications in reconciliation , and opening up the force and meaning of Christianity from that centre .
5 While this may seem like hard work , the benefits to be gained , in terms of opening up the fingerboard and greater harmonic awareness , are invaluable .
6 Then they re-peopled the village , opening up the doors and window vents of all the cottages , and letting the moorland winds blow through , raising up spectres of dust and shrouds of dislodged spider 's web .
7 For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity .
8 I thought that three guineas would be an appropriate amount , drew up a licence and sent it to him to sign .
9 Without knocking or hesitation he entered the left-hand door , drew up a chair and , with full and accurate expectation that he was awaited , opened his document case , threw the photographs on the desk and said , ‘ That 's the proof then .
10 ‘ I needed a break from routine rather badly , ’ he said as he drew up a chair and sat down .
11 Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs .
12 Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe .
13 How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation .
14 Anyway , this old miser drew up an indenture and the monies were made available .
15 On occasions like these , friends of Burton reported , he would counter-attack by releasing his temper , tearing up the room and making it quite clear and genuinely credible that whatever they did , said or tried on he would do just whatever he wanted .
16 Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm .
17 Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase .
18 It ran straight , hit the back of the hole , bounced up an inch and then dropped into the cup .
19 A wife can be busy bunging up a family and so taken up with their affairs that she fails to give her husband real attention .
20 Such surveys , whether by sea or land , again required not merely naturalists to accompany them , but museum staff to write up the collections and make the knowledge public .
21 Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal .
22 Before initiating an incident , you weighed up the pros and cons of the costs in time .
23 I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’
24 Eventually , the young officer weighed up the pros and contras and made the correct decision , for him and for yours truly , by delivering us to our front door .
25 And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already .
26 The crowd caught up the shout and Jess felt excitement run through her .
27 However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire .
28 She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies .
29 He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard .
30 In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used .
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