Example sentences of "you [verb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's at the top but the lift you pick up at the bottom now . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ These are not 500 bananas that you pick up in a supermarket and put in your basket and take somewhere else . |
| 3 | It is certainly not unreasonable to refuse to give up a bank note which you pick up in the street to the first stranger who alleges it to be his , if you tell him that you must make further inquiries or that he must produce evidence which will authenticate his claim . |
| 4 | It 's always the same with enchanted castles , ’ said Snodgrass , as if , thought Fenella , only vaguely listening , enchantments were the sort of thing you met up with every day . |
| 5 | He wants you to go up to the villa . ’ |
| 6 | Jackets made goal-posts , and : ‘ If you went down you got up with a lump of a cinder in your knee . ’ |
| 7 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 8 | On awakening it will rise from five to ten beats a minute , and during the day it will rise gradually and may be up to ten beats higher at bedtime than it was when you got up in the morning . |
| 9 | You never knew what you were in for when you got up in the morning . |
| 10 | In short , if you crept up behind a chameleon and shouted ‘ boo ’ it would respond by changing colour but not necessarily to the colour of its surroundings . |
| 11 | Oh you oh you mean up on the board or |
| 12 | You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time . |
| 13 | I cut mine with a special retractable knife , but do be careful how you cut , so that the knife does not slip towards you and you land up in the Accident Department . |
| 14 | When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea . |
| 15 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 16 | How long does it usually take you to come up with a solo that meets the demanding criteria you 've just described ? |
| 17 | Do you feel up to a bit of leg work ? ’ |
| 18 | You woke up to the figure in the dress with the head of the wolf . |
| 19 | Now — you woke up with a sense of relief and surprise that you were still there , you got up , brushed your teeth , and before you knew it you were watching television . |
| 20 | It 's fairly important that as , when you walk up to the ball you 're body is in line with , where you want to be . |
| 21 | Have you phoned up for the number ? |
| 22 | H. P. You put up with the discipline because of the unemployment . |
| 23 | Is n't this where you line up for the tram coming home from work ? ’ |
| 24 | Some questions to see how you match up to the job |
| 25 | After , after er you break up in the summer ? |
| 26 | You fed up with the canal ? " |
| 27 | I do n't normally sort of insist on people looking at the , the biographical background for the , but it 's crucial with Donne for you to pick up on a lot of the |
| 28 | Why , you going up for a Chinese ? |
| 29 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 30 | When the night time comes up comes along you look up in the sky and say where 's the moon gone . |