Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb infin] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The publicity schemes they do think up , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ Do eat up , sweetie , ’ she called to Artemis . |
| 3 | ‘ John , love , said Jannie , ‘ do eat up . |
| 4 | If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind . |
| 5 | They do make up a minor genre : the expedition into Darkest Britain , as trekked by George Orwell and a trickle of disciples up to , and including , the Belfast writer and photographer team of Robert McLiam Wilson and Donovan Wylie , who publish The Dispossessed ( Picador ) this week . |
| 6 | When we do make up our minds to lose the excess , however , we tend to sacrifice long-term benefits for short-term success : our aim is to get to our target weight as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | Avoid rubber bands , spiky brushes and combs , and do cover up your hair in the sun . |
| 8 | ‘ But even if you do catch up with her there 's nothing but spanners and wrenches in her medicine chest . |
| 9 | Well yeah cos when you think like that if they do pack up he 's got no no nothing . |
| 10 | Where problems do crop up in the records they are often of the type that are familiar to all families with teenagers . |
| 11 | The check-flights will keep the airframe ‘ live ’ and allow a ferry flight to another destination , if the RAF do give up the aircraft , to be a much more cost effective proposition than the notion of dismantling her . |
| 12 | ‘ If we do give up , Donald and all the other boys who have lost their lives there will have died for nothing . ’ |
| 13 | ( So people actually do pace up and down when they 're nervous . ) |
| 14 | Well people are not bound to lose , because some people do finish up ahead , but most people should expect to lose for the simple reason that bookies have got to make a living somehow , and therefore the odds that they offer to entice people to go in are such as to expect the bookie to make a profit , but that does n't mean to say that I am against the idea of people going in for gambling . |
| 15 | This ensures nothing is inadvertently left inside the patient , although modern-day swabs do show up on X-rays . |
| 16 | Oh I see well you 've got 'em you 've that 's why you put em diagonal you see so that they really do show up against the |
| 17 | However , because they are ‘ heads of households ’ , lone mothers do show up more readily in the statistics ( that is , when they are not partially hidden in the category of ‘ lone parent ’ ) . |
| 18 | They can feel cold at first but they do warm up quickly and in warmer conditions the modern micro-fibre fabrics commonly used do n't feel sticky in the way that older nylon linings did . |
| 19 | Of course , there are one or two exceptions to the no talking or moving yourself ‘ rule ’ : do speak up if something your partner is doing is hurting , or if you feel cold or uncomfortable in any way . |
| 20 | Oh do speak up I ca n't hear you . |
| 21 | ‘ Children do grow up , I know , ’ he said , staring at the bean poles . |
| 22 | ‘ They do grow up . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ None of them are strictly necessary , but they do break up all that time and give people the feeling they 're doing something — ; achieving something . |
| 24 | Of course , clouds do break up and form " daughter " clouds sometimes , but this is n't enough for cumulative selection . |
| 25 | Well I do ring up now and again yes . |
| 26 | Shetlanders in the area do divide up ‘ their ’ incomers , i.e. those incomers who reside in the area . |
| 27 | Yes , do hurry up ! |
| 28 | Florrie tugged at the empty sleeve of her husband 's coat , pleading , ‘ Do hurry up , Ebbie . |
| 29 | Fenella said , a bit impatiently , ‘ Oh , do hurry up , Caspar ! |
| 30 | Goodness , child , do hurry up . |