Example sentences of "you [modal v] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition .
2 Try to neutralise these tendencies by taking heed of your owner 's complaints , or you may finish up the underdog .
3 ‘ Perhaps you ought to make up a party with your parents , ’ Isobel said dutifully .
4 ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing .
5 ‘ It 's just you should speak up a bit more . ’
6 ‘ I do n't mean you should give up the drugs . ’
7 You should open up a bit more , share your problems .
8 Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column .
9 Try and keep the majority of writing to the period of five minutes or so after the interviewee has left , when you should sum up the points while they are fresh in your mind .
10 You should write up the notes immediately after the call before the memory of the call fades ( see figure 7 )
11 You should pick up a chair and throw it at me but
12 You might build up the fire a little . ’
13 He took it — rather as you might pick up a worm in the garden — and popped it gingerly in his mouth .
14 But you might pick up a thing or two just by looking .
15 Er , Erm , another thing you might do , you might take up a hobby that you 've got to think about .
16 ‘ And I suppose you 'll bring up the rear , if we 're lucky enough to survive ? ’ said Tommy .
17 It would not would it , so leave it in position and if you need to put another pad over the top , then do that , more pressure and a bigger pad , never take the original one off , okay , leave it on otherwise you 'll open up the wound again and you 'll have all that problem over again , so pad , pressure and elevate , what if it do n't work ?
18 And , they may have one display displayed , but if you go to somewhere like a warehouse or distribution where you go round and pick up your you can go to a garden you 'll pick up a box that 's illustrating a Flymo lawn mower or something and , and it 'll , er they spend a lot of time and money on the packaging , but , a lot of people for pilferage reasons do n't illustrate and that 's good practise not to illustrate , from our point of view , what 's on the package .
19 Right One of the things that er we try to pass on is that you 'll pick up a lot of information which may not be relevant to you but may be relevant to members of your family or friends .
20 After a pause Alison said , ‘ Do you think it will pass and you 'll pick up the pieces ? ’
21 The fridge-freezer otherwise you 'd get up every morning and you 'd have a right mess in your cupboard would n't you ?
22 Anyway , you could scratch up the rifling with a file and steel wool so that it would never give the same markings on a bullet again . ’
23 You could draw up a checklist of topics which are of current concern to your students to help you select suitable items from news programmes .
24 So the very fact that the offspring are more mature , would reduce conflict , because the degree of value of the sources is going to be much greater , in other words , you could give up the sweet .
25 Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ?
26 Alternatively , you could set up the WP3–7 to give two different volume levels , different sounds for slap and fingerstyle , different EQs for your fretted and fretless basses , or any other combination .
27 If you could make up a sentence with those .
28 Ever wish you could make up a degree course to suit your own needs ?
29 ‘ If you could dig up a back copy — he gave the date , nine years before ; ‘ — If the worst comes to the worst , just lift one from the Liaison Officer 's back room . ’
30 If you stand here it might look beautiful , but if you pick up each one individually you 'll see weeds germinating , brittle bits and you could pick up a disease in the early stages which you just would n't see otherwise .
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