Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pick up the phone again and dial the Home Office . |
| 2 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 3 | I gave up the job there and then and headed for Brazil . |
| 4 | I start up the engine again and move on , staying within fifty metres of the shore , which is the usual feeding range of the local otters . |
| 5 | So I wrapped up the conversation as rudely as someone on Newsnight trying to silence a politician , just as he dealt me a social body blow . |
| 6 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Just as the members of the harmonic series come at closer and closer intervals as the series ascends , so will the notes of a well-sounding chord be arranged with the notes which make up the top half closer together than those of the bottom half , and a clear octave should be left at the extreme bottom of the chord . |
| 8 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
| 9 | Few people , excepting a few insatiable car-racing and real-life murder fans , would give much to see again such monsters of eyestrain as Grand Prix ( 1966 ) or The Boston Strangler ( 1969 ) which chopped up the screen mercilessly into segments that seemed as much clashing as complementary . |
| 10 | The most important pre-flight check is to ensure that you pick up the handles so that right and left align with the correct bridles . |
| 11 | Wahl Bartmann , Tiaan Strauss , Jannie Breedt and Ian MacDonald of the forwards and centres such as Pieter Muller and Jannie Classen will revel in this approach , as will all of the very physical players who make up the game here . |
| 12 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
| 13 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |
| 14 | If you 're on a long run conditions may change from the top to the bottom ; and when you feel your skis biting through the top surface it 's time to head back to the piste before you break up the snow too much . |
| 15 | The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently . |
| 16 | In the Cornish mines the tutworkers who opened up the ground usually worked eight-hour shifts , with three shifts over twenty-four hours known by the mid eighteenth century . |
| 17 | This could be in the form of simple notes , but a better way is to compile a revised shot list in which the details are given together with other editing information ( eg ‘ delete first six seconds ’ ) to help you set up the edit-points quickly . |
| 18 | I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 19 | Instead she picked up the receiver again . |
| 20 | She picked up the receiver resignedly . |
| 21 | She picked up the receiver numbly . |
| 22 | She picked up the lanthorn again to get a clearer view , and what she saw deeply etched into his right shoulder burned into her mind as hot metal had burned into his flesh . |
| 23 | She wrapped up the mask politely although she heard the gong sound and knew she would be late for dinner . |
| 24 | guess who picked up the account just after that ? |
| 25 | That adds up to more than £2 million worth of business for Andy Barker , who set up the company only a year ago . |
| 26 | Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like |
| 27 | We got up the top there . |
| 28 | In this way one goes up the scale gradually instead of in leaps as in the centesimal scale . |
| 29 | Obviously if we close up the ocean again , the resemblances would not be so startling . |
| 30 | Obviously we use up the money more quickly . |