Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [to-vb] up the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 7 | Often Hickey is besieged by fans who want him to turn up the vocals and they make their point forcibly . |
| 8 | Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages . |
| 9 | So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in . |
| 10 | I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A good technique is to have a flip chart or white board , divide it with a line down the middle and ask someone to write up the arguments for and against . |
| 13 | Do n't be afraid of white space , use it to break up the page and provide more interest . |
| 14 | They do nothing to break up the food into easily swallowed gobbets or to tease out the hard inedible bits . |