Example sentences of "you [verb] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match . |
| 2 | Yeah you bring up the spare channel . |
| 3 | Why do n't you count up the French words in italics and see how many you can learn by heart . |
| 4 | Bit like those papapizza photographers you duffed up the other week , eh Stan ? |
| 5 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 6 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 7 | When you picking up the new car ? |
| 8 | Then you ride out alone , across the springing grass all beset with tiny jewel-like flowers ; you ride up the rushy mountains and down the rushy glens and come to the mouth of the dragon 's cave . |
| 9 | If you look up the relevant books you will find that eqn ( 3.56 ) may be expressed in terms of elliptic integrals . |
| 10 | Have you used up the first side then ? |
| 11 | You add up the total marks given to your players , divide by x — then roll a dice that number of times and take the highest number rolled … |
| 12 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 13 | Listen , why do n't you ring up the social editor of the Advent , and tell her about your meeting tomorrow . |
| 14 | Just for that you can start again , from the moment you climbed up the mooring rope . ’ |
| 15 | And your own personal ‘ diata ’ will help you to build up the long term eating habits that are necessary for good health . |
| 16 | If you over oil the skin it will be too slippery to enable you to build up the necessary friction . |
| 17 | You 're being asked erm you told us you rang up the Assistant Chief Constable who gave you the authority to carry out the armed operation . |
| 18 | You looked up the late opening times of the local pool but never got round to going . |
| 19 | Here is a test : if you were in Warsaw , faced with an hour to fill before catching a train , would you go up the tallest building in the city to experience a panoramic view , or rush to the bookstore/poster shop in order to buy a massive Telly Savalas poster ? |
| 20 | Please use it as a reminder to ensure that you keep up the good work and the resolutions you have started . |
| 21 | ‘ You went up the next morning . |
| 22 | You brought up the special point there , really that , that when someone 's watching football match I think you said |
| 23 | These are very useful , as they enable you to balance up the individual microphone inputs with a degree of precision which is not easy to achieve simply by listening on headphones . |
| 24 | Why did n't you save up the bad news for after May 5 ? |
| 25 | He wrote ‘ Jo honey , will you pick up the goddam phone ? |
| 26 | And who could ever forget the row you kicked up the one year you were n't chosen to play Mary in the school nativity play ? ’ |
| 27 | and you 're not commissioned communicating professionally or particularly politely if you do n't ring up that day or the next day anybody understands if you have a puncture a road accident a client crashes but there 's nothing to actually stop you ringing up the next day and saying so sorry you could n't make it |
| 28 | You write up the offered words , correctly , without asking how they are spelled . |
| 29 | The bad news is that your pass is for today and Friday , and Lil wo n't allow you to make up the lost time in the field . |