Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a [adj] [noun] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | They like to watch a tough woman up there on the screen and comfort themselves with the thought that they 'll never have to live with her . ’ |
| 2 | This is a new sales approach , designed to support the industry 's desire to link information technology and business objectives to gain the competitive edge : if a customer wants to increase market share by say 5% over a year , Customer Systems might , for example , agree to take a certain fee up front , and then link subsequent earnings to the achievement of the customer 's business aim . |
| 3 | well this is it , you 've got a good stock up anyway there |
| 4 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 5 | I 've had them stretched once , I wants them stretched again cos I 've got a beautiful ring up there and I never puts them on . |
| 6 | I 've got a little graph up here now one thing about communication and with good communication what you can do is you can actually increase trust and co-operation amongst people . |
| 7 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 8 | Recent investigations of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary have delineated a high-strain zone up to 9 kilometres wide . |