Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I suggest you pick up the phone and you give us a call now on , alright ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 4 | This is a unique chance for them to retain the use of this line and I urge them to keep up the pressure . |
| 5 | So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in . |
| 6 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 7 | I feel you summed up the points we discussed very fairly and produced two worthwhile and coherent papers . |
| 8 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
| 9 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 10 | ‘ You want me to pick up the tab . ’ |
| 11 | Phone if you want me to saddle up the mare and I 'll have her ready for you by the time you get down here . ’ |
| 12 | Often Hickey is besieged by fans who want him to turn up the vocals and they make their point forcibly . |
| 13 | Now I filed my nail this morning cos it was catching , I did n't file it long enough obviously , but I filed it with that erm you know you opened up the |
| 14 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 15 | Every time we meet he brings up the subject , and Dawn says — ’ |
| 16 | Now we pay we pick up the tab at the Grand Hotel for those three days in-house . |
| 17 | Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages . |
| 18 | they reckon I climbed up the outs the outside of a fucking multi-storey car park for two flights . |
| 19 | They enable us to break up the larger and more nebulous goals , into smaller , more manageable pieces . |
| 20 | These are very useful , as they enable you to balance up the individual microphone inputs with a degree of precision which is not easy to achieve simply by listening on headphones . |
| 21 | They need us to back up the regular force … but some of the police who are in a supervisory role are anti reserve police . |