Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This puts a healthy pressure on the insurer to provide good quality policies and back them up with a fast and fair administrative and claims service . |
| 2 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 3 | In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone . |
| 4 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 5 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 6 | We have teamed up with Phonogram records to fly you and a guest to the States and put you up in a swanky hotel for a week 's luxury holiday . |
| 7 | Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob |
| 8 | Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year . |
| 9 | Before buying a tie , hold it up by the skinny end , like a fish . |
| 10 | So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious . |
| 11 | Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ? |
| 12 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | Apply it over the boards with a roller , wait a few seconds , then wipe it up with a clean cloth . |
| 14 | " Take a quart of Creme and a pint of rhenish wine and the juice of 4 lemons sweeten it to your taste and put in some leamon peele then whip it up with a small rod and put it with a spoone into syllabub glasses . " |
| 15 | If you are paid a weekly wage , then add it up to the monthly total and put that down and so on . |
| 16 | ‘ Give yourself up to the fixed idea : to become a painter . ’ |
| 17 | They are attempting to cross at Dravograd and give themselves up to the British … |
| 18 | A voice from the front of the column shouted , ‘ Piper , at Achnacarry and in England you wake us up with your bagpipes ; here in France we wake you up with a hot dinner at the last minute . ’ |
| 19 | Accordingly , we wrap it up in a little computer procedure , label it DEVELOPMENT , and prepare to embed it in a larger program labelled EVOLUTION . |
| 20 | Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath . |
| 21 | I then produce a 5 by 4 or a 10 by 8 colour transparency and set it up on a light table . |
| 22 | He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach . |
| 23 | And that get us up to a certain distance , but even then that method must fail when you get beyond a certain distance . |
| 24 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |
| 25 | The best approach to this difficult joint is to make an initial shallow cut in the end of the arm and feed it up in the correct position to the back . |
| 26 | I will give him sharp orders , he thought , and bring him up on a short rein ; and I will see him come to terms , and kiss the hand that curbs him . |
| 27 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 28 | I could have done with a little more natural variation in the sound , but seeing that all Kirk is probably going to do with it is leave it on the neck pickup , knock all the middle off at the amp and turn it up to an excruciating volume , it does n't have to be the most variable guitar in the world . |
| 29 | The other three departments keep most information in hard copy but back it up with a small use of online services . |
| 30 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |