Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So it is with history essays — you can have an opinion but you must back it up with fact or reasons .
2 " I 'll chop them up for kindling . "
3 We 'll bring you up to date at 5.40pm .
4 Give Ellis a ring before lunch-time and he 'll bring you up to date .
5 We 'll bring you up to date on the situation later in the programme .
6 But it 's er had it we took round to that fella round Dash Hill there well Alec took it and er he said I 'll ring you up in morning and give you an estimate .
7 and I thought well I 'm not gon na eat them now they 've been out of bag , so I thought oh I 'll boil them up for dog
8 So that was the attitude hey , but erm they 'll have me up for libel here .
9 I 'll serve it up on toast for you . ’
10 I 'll put them up for auction . ’
11 I 'll fill it up with water .
12 Ai n't she going to work , I 'll pick her up from work
13 ‘ I 'll pick him up from school , then , ’ she said .
14 I 'll pick you up outside school at four . ’
15 Well it 's not , if you I 'll pick you up at quarter past four .
16 We 'll pick it up after lunch and it can be transferred to my office safe . ’
17 They 'll pick us up on radar from our reflector , but I like to be sure about these things . ’
18 I 'll wake you up at quarter past seven , you can get straight in .
19 We could do it up till Christmas , three monthly or something like that
20 A self-reliant smallholder with a good workshop could set himself up for barn-drying quite cheaply , connecting a second-hand electric or internal combustion motor to a suitable turbo-fan , and leading the air through ducts on the barn floor .
21 Oh he 'd pick me up at night , I see
22 Let's have him up in Theatre . ’
23 You see well the point was when you pick 'em up erm we had a sm we had a big boat , what we called hanger boat , a very heavy boat and that used to have a wooden so therefore we used to pull it up by hand and pull it ove on a little barrel with a hand power that 's what we used to do and once we got the anchor in board we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then rerun it again right on to the mud and on the anchor again .
24 And mum , and Emma used to pick me up from school , primary school , and I was like , always last out .
25 That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler .
26 Bunkers , coal , they all coal furnace you see , and we er they 'd come in and we used to fill them up with coal , whatever they wanted lot of that went over the side coal , beautiful coal that was .
27 And then you used to mix it up with bran and oats and cake and that sort of stuff , for the horses .
28 My mum used to dress me up for church , but if it was up to me I would have wanted to wear something tatty .
29 It is possible that non-producers with quota could seek the service of brokers who would keep them up to date with supply and demand trends on the short-term leasing market .
30 We shall set him up in advertising ,
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