Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness . |
| 2 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 3 | But I could have them send up a tray if you 'd rather stay in bed . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Much has been written on opening up a dialogue and creating collaboration on reading between home and school . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Constanze 's guardian accordingly drew up a document that Mozart was required to sign , promising to marry her within three years , or else pay a large sum as compensation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I thought that three guineas would be an appropriate amount , drew up a licence and sent it to him to sign . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I needed a break from routine rather badly , ’ he said as he drew up a chair and sat down . |
| 14 | Already gowned and masked herself , she drew up the lignocaine and opened the suture packs . |
| 15 | Ben drew up the car and then glanced at Zoe . |
| 16 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 17 | Anyway , this old miser drew up an indenture and the monies were made available . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A traditional anecdote may be said to sum up the change that has taken place in our attitude . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It ran straight , hit the back of the hole , bounced up an inch and then dropped into the cup . |
| 23 | Tired as they were , they stumbled through the dark hours , picking themselves up when they fell , keeping up a pace that left no time for thought or speech . |
| 24 | ‘ So you write to your family , keeping up a pretence that all is well with your world ? |
| 25 | He should still be inside , keeping up the pressure until he forced the truth out of her . |
| 26 | The claims of the opponents of monopoly turned out to be reasonably justified ; more and more slaves were shipped across the Atlantic by the independent traders , and the government found itself drawn further and further into keeping up the forts that provided English traders with a base of operations in West Africa . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Reporters had from 8.30am to 10am to write up the meeting or function they may have been covering the night before , or else they re-wrote stories from the morning edition of the Regina Leader-Post . |
| 30 | 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 . |