Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , suppose we find unc Then we may set up the regression formula unc and if we begin with |
| 2 | But , then , we should give up the concept of " identical meanings " and accept that there can be only relative similarities of use , and hence only approximate , pragmatically testable , substitutability of certain expressions within similar contexts . |
| 3 | I do not say that we should pull up the anchor and take the United Kingdom somewhere else . |
| 4 | But yesterday Coun Frank Robson ( Lab ) , who represents Lingfield Ward , said : ‘ I think we should weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of having a hospital on an industrial estate . |
| 5 | Maybe we should call up the McKeans to say we got back safely ; you can ask after Julie … ’ |
| 6 | We must wake up the masses and found a truly democratic and free society ’ ( Tournebise and Macdonald 1987 : 106 ) , read the message , with clear links to students in the past and future . |
| 7 | We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out . |
| 8 | If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll make up the time , I promise . ’ |
| 10 | Back into your document , and we 'll go up a bit . |
| 11 | O K , we , we 'll draw up the contract when we 've finished today , O K ? |
| 12 | But if we do n't get moving now we 'll mess up the schedule . ’ |
| 13 | I think that the compan companies out there have not made any profits for about five years , and they 're desperate to return to er an even keel , and they are going to force up the price of goods and services as soon humanly possible , and we 'll pick up the bill . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll put up a statue to you , Mary . ’ |
| 15 | ( We 'll mop up the blood afterwards ) . |
| 16 | So we thought we might make up a party from the parish and go to Rome . ’ |
| 17 | We might catch up a bit here . |
| 18 | As the band were good enough live , we could build up a ground swell of interest at a local level which then translated into national success . |
| 19 | ‘ The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust told me how we could set up a clinic to register as many people as possible , ’ said Mr Griffiths . |
| 20 | We could set up a Follets here . |
| 21 | And perhaps we could open up the pest house |
| 22 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 23 | With his money and our soul we could think up a scheme to please everybody . |
| 24 | I went with the boss to do it so that we could follow up the practice of the theory you see . |
| 25 | We could turn up the movie but it does n't help . |
| 26 | We could pick up the World Service , Voice of America ( VOA ) and a number of local stations which broadcast in English and French . |
| 27 | We decided we 'd set up a farm there rearing llama and vicuna and corner the cloth market , assuming there was one . |
| 28 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 29 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 30 | Many years ago — back in the early '70s , I think — Burt Reynolds called up Warren Beatty and me and formed Marriage Anonymous on the theory that if any of the three of us got tempted to get married we 'd ring up the others and we 'd go round and make them drunk . |