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Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ You want me to pick up the tab . ’
2	You want me to blow up a railroad station ? ’
3	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 . ’
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	Er I suggest you pick up the phone and you give us a call now on , alright ?
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	When you 've finished with the reptiles , I want you to round up a group of humans .
9	I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’
10	Often Hickey is besieged by fans who want him to turn up the vocals and they make their point forcibly .
11	With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot .
12	But neighbours say it brightens up the area and they want it to stay .
13	‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange .
14	Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages .
15	Imagine yourself breaking up the earth with your hands ; imagine its feel .
16	Leaving this aside for the moment though , let us set up a contrast between the two as follows :
17	Let us sum up the discussion so far .
18	But first let us follow up the possibility that the problem is entirely to do with the estimate .
19	Should the government dare to interfere with our private domestic life , let us rise to a man and protest and also let us get up a monster demonstration and march four deep to Trafalgar Square . "
20	Every time we meet he brings up the subject , and Dawn says — ’
21	The idea is to get them to trust the staff and their peer group and get them to open up a bit .
22	So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in .
23	I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up .
24	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 .
25	Rout out Annunziata , would you , Comfort , and get her to bring up a tray of breakfast .
26	I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his
27	But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns .
28	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 .
29	At intervals along these are found acupuncture points which are stimulated by the insertion of needles , massage or warming with incense so as to balance the elements of yin and yang which make up the ch'i , an imbalance of which is thought to cause disharmony and disease .
30	Instead , ClarisWorks has a toolbar running down the side of the screen , containing special icons which allow you to call up a worksheet or a graphic .