Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 2 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 3 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 4 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 5 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 6 | I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide . |
| 7 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 8 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 9 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 10 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 11 | I roll up the sleeves of my crisp white shirt , because old thought is dusty stuff . |
| 12 | See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’ |
| 13 | And tha that is one thing I 'm , I mean I 'm not I 'm not the best driver in the world , but that is one thing I do try not to do cos as you say no matter what the circumstances are , if I go up the back of somebody it is my fault . |
| 14 | I steam up the platform after him , knowing Des can block him the other side . |
| 15 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
| 16 | You pick up the cake of soap and leave as quietly as you entered . ’ |
| 17 | but you , you 've , you build up the strength in yourself and believe that your , your in vulnerable and then to find out that you are vulnerable , it really scary |
| 18 | Driver of Vickers Laboratories explained the procedure : ‘ You shake up the sample in carbon tet to extract the oil , dry it , and run an IR spectrum in the crucial region because it has no C-C bonds . |
| 19 | It is doubtful if you look up the word for baggage retrieval , and then look for a sign with those words . |
| 20 | If you look up the line of the eighteenth fairway you will see — yes — the helicopter is hovering over its target . |
| 21 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 22 | It seems a minor , if pleasant , benefit until you mount up the cost of a weekly trip to the hairdressers . |
| 23 | Erm fact that you set up the scene for the introductions and you asked for it that you , you know , took and reduced those people to an image of which was good . |
| 24 | If you set up the water to the right parameters , there is no reason why you should no be able to keep this species successfully . |
| 25 | I his is the sort of individual who is eventually invited to become a board master and the system engenders a wonderful sense of anticipation , as you progress up the board towards the prime positions ; when you are going to have your special day , on your favourite loch . |
| 26 | You fire up the engine on the starter button and the mechanic waves you out into the pit lane and you realize that the overall purpose of a racing car 's design is that you should feel a pure sense of yourself in propulsion . |
| 27 | Okay , we can now define a further notion called C command the phrase X C commands a phrase Y , if and only if A neither of X nor Y dominates the other so neither is directly above the other and in the path and B , the first branching node is dominating X , also dominates Y so let's find out if X and C commands to Y , you go up the tree from X and you find the branching node , the first branching node dominating X and see if that node also dominates Y. Okay . |
| 28 | Florence C commands both saw and herself because if you go up the tree from Florence you find the first branching node , that 's the S node and that dominates both saw and herself . |
| 29 | Okay and saw C commands herself because if you go up the tree from saw to the first branching node , you 'll find that branching node also dominates herself . |
| 30 | No matter how much you speed up the entry into London at some point in time you are going to have to create a jam . |