Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |
| 2 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
| 3 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 4 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 5 | You want me to blow up a railroad station ? ’ |
| 6 | SINGER Patty Smyth attacked two policeman after she caught them beating up a friend in New York . |
| 7 | When you 've finished with the reptiles , I want you to round up a group of humans . |
| 8 | It is the only course in the United Kingdom which will qualify her to set up a dance and fitness college in the province — a business , she believes , which will afford her children security for the future while fulfilling their mother 's lifelong ambition . |
| 9 | With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot . |
| 10 | Another has been tested by P T Breuer ( 1991 ) , who used it to speed up a game playing program . |
| 11 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 12 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 13 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 14 | Again Ted demurred , but the Parliamentary Party 's unease over the procedure for new leadership elections caused him to set up a review committee under Alec Home . |
| 15 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 16 | Leaving this aside for the moment though , let us set up a contrast between the two as follows : |
| 17 | Should the government dare to interfere with our private domestic life , let us rise to a man and protest and also let us get up a monster demonstration and march four deep to Trafalgar Square . " |
| 18 | This holds the pressed plant material in place allowing you to build up a design without dislodging any of the flowers you have already arranged . |
| 19 | Erm two things now have cropped up number one of course is that there 's a fair chance within the next year we 're gon na lose Bill anyway through civilianisation , and secondly er the fact that er his boss er Rick has said to him , look I do n't want you going up a division any more to do erm A L O work , quite reasonably , he 's not being funny about it , it 's quite reasonable , cos its mileage . |
| 20 | But I ca n't see them setting up a situation where they 're gon na exploit their own workers |
| 21 | Your midwife and doctor , though , see many pregnant women , so they need to use all their skills to help them build up a picture of your individual , unique pregnancy . |
| 22 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you . |
| 24 | Use the words and pictures on these pages to help you build up a picture of what happened . |
| 25 | To help you draw up a shortlist from the dozens of good new varieties on offer , the accompanying table will help you choose the pick of the bunch . |
| 26 | Daphne had indeed introduced her to Guy , only a few weeks before , when Daphne had persuaded her to make up a party to see La Boheme at Covent Garden . |
| 27 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 28 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 29 | Mr Suharto has been tempting it back into his orbit by , for example , encouraging a Chinese business group to help it set up a bank , thus giving the NU 's members a useful stake in the economic largesse that the government can dispense . |
| 30 | Common Law allowed us to cut up a freehold estate into successive estates , each recognized by Common Law . |