Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] up [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yesterday Coun Frank Robson ( Lab ) , who represents Lingfield Ward , said : ‘ I think we should weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of having a hospital on an industrial estate . |
| 2 | Ministers should draw up a budget and then pack up for the year . |
| 3 | City must stump up the cash and planned to watch Viscaal yesterday against Mechelin . |
| 4 | You should pick up a chair and throw it at me but |
| 5 | In each case , the wizard must pick up the book and caress it for a minimum of 1 hour . |
| 6 | We must wake up the masses and found a truly democratic and free society ’ ( Tournebise and Macdonald 1987 : 106 ) , read the message , with clear links to students in the past and future . |
| 7 | I do not say that we should pull up the anchor and take the United Kingdom somewhere else . |
| 8 | And then I 'll go up the shop and get some , I 'll need a couple of boxes . |
| 9 | Very cost What I 'm saying is it 's quick erm people expect to do it it 's something oh if they 're writing instead of going round I 'll pick up the phone and do it . |
| 10 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |
| 11 | ‘ Liverpool are lucky enough to have the best fans in the world and I know they 'll turn up the volume and strike fear into Spartak . |
| 12 | For a moment I considered bolting , but I noticed that a young reptilian reception-clerk was watching me narrowly , as if he thought I might roll up a carpet and try to carry it out under my arm , and I became instantly obstreperous . |
| 13 | I 'd collect up the photos and put 'em hon the bed . |
| 14 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 15 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 16 | Many years ago — back in the early '70s , I think — Burt Reynolds called up Warren Beatty and me and formed Marriage Anonymous on the theory that if any of the three of us got tempted to get married we 'd ring up the others and we 'd go round and make them drunk . |
| 17 | It is conceivable that the sender could set up a board and easel and compose a poem to signal to another , or write a message on a piece of paper and make a paper aeroplane to fly across the room . |
| 18 | The unscrupulous could set up a charity and then get company status , producing a set of accounts which are totally meaningless from a charity point of view . ’ |
| 19 | he used to go to the house and he 'd measure up the body and I |
| 20 | Oliver was trying to find out , in very slow English , when they could tidy up the flat and leave Antibes . |
| 21 | The fridge-freezer otherwise you 'd get up every morning and you 'd have a right mess in your cupboard would n't you ? |
| 22 | If only he could pick up the rock and hurl it , defiantly , to reciprocate the violence with such a true aim , that it would smash whatever the chosen target . |
| 23 | This is why cable and satellite technology must advance together ; reception centres in parts of Britain with a good view of the satellite could pick up the signals and relay them by cable into nearby homes . |
| 24 | I adored it — the glamour , the feeling of being in the hub of things which I love — I love clothes — I used to make up every day and make myself look nice and meet people … to me it was n't work , every minute of it was enjoyment … |
| 25 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 26 | But I do know they would weigh up the dangers and think about the very fact that they could fly . |
| 27 | But apart from that he , he was a , he was er humorous too by nature and er he was , he was quite free in as much as if you made an approach to him , and he understood that you were n't there just for fun , he would set up a meeting and discuss it with you , er and go into details and at the same time , give you an answer at the earliest possible moment . |
| 28 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 29 | And then — then they would take up the hoe and become farmers . |
| 30 | Carl Sagan , the distinguished astrophysicist , suggested in 1961 that Venus could be made habitable to earthlings if it were seeded with blue-green algae , which would split up the carbon and oxygen molecules to glean the carbon necessary for the glucose and carbohydrate diets they would need . |