Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You want me to pick up the tab . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | This is a unique chance for them to retain the use of this line and I urge them to keep up the pressure . |
| 4 | Er I suggest you pick up the phone and you give us a call now on , alright ? |
| 5 | I want somebody whose sitting there listening to the radio sort of er just relaxed and I I just want you to pick up the phone and ring . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 8 | But neighbours say it brightens up the area and they want it to stay . |
| 9 | Imagine yourself breaking up the earth with your hands ; imagine its feel . |
| 10 | Let us sum up the discussion so far . |
| 11 | But first let us follow up the possibility that the problem is entirely to do with the estimate . |
| 12 | Every time we meet he brings up the subject , and Dawn says — ’ |
| 13 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
| 14 | I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | guess who picked up the account just after that ? |
| 17 | Now we pay we pick up the tab at the Grand Hotel for those three days in-house . |
| 18 | If you ask " What should we do now that there 's a reward been offered for our arrest ? " you should be prepared to accept the response : " Find whoever put up the poster and kill them . " |
| 19 | Although the election of Avitus is the last Auvergnat election covered by Gregory , two saints ' Lives allow us to take up the story again a century later . |
| 20 | go I pick up the accent . |
| 21 | Do n't be afraid of white space , use it to break up the page and provide more interest . |
| 22 | They do nothing to break up the food into easily swallowed gobbets or to tease out the hard inedible bits . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now then , how do I set up the board ? |
| 25 | How do you build up the picture in a regression session ? |
| 26 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 27 | Why do you pick up the evening paper and linger over tales of local gossip or distress when you have important tasks to carry out ? |
| 28 | Now — how the hell do you get up the Serendipity Variation ? |
| 29 | How do we add up the value of a school 's work for its pupils , not just academically but in all sorts of other ways ? |
| 30 | Do they conjure up the impression that children are engaged in some form of pre-Victorian drudgery at school ? |