Example sentences of "you [vb base] up a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you pick up a round stone now , walk to the dinosaur 's back and you 'll automatically go up and put a piece of roof on . |
| 2 | Whenever you pick up a heavy load , bend both legs . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
| 4 | What tends to happen is you pick up a large mutation and then you modify it further , further modifying selection . |
| 5 | Once you build up a regular routine you will want to get outside whatever the weather is doing . |
| 6 | You build up a frightening picture of an immensely long , empty passage of time , only to cancel it out with your last breath , leaving your audience thoroughly confused , but clinging to the idea that eternity is ‘ like ’ a great length of time . ’ |
| 7 | Is it enough to assume you are comparatively fit because you walk up a few stairs or stretch and bend a little as you go about your household chores ? |
| 8 | It 's different if you 're paid to come here to give a talk and you put up a poor show but if you 've volunteered then er I think er you know you you really ought to have a different approach to . |
| 9 | When they do n't come off , you run up a big score . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You give up a nice bed to come out here ? ’ he asks . |
| 11 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 12 | ‘ Now , if you set up a decent practice , somewhere in Belgravia , instead of this … slum , you could come and treat me . |
| 13 | You take up a new career in advertising … |
| 14 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 15 | Now that really does put you directly in the front-line when you 're answering the phone , so that call could be for anybody , when you take up a night-line call . |
| 16 | You take up a left stance and line yourself up so that your left foot is in front of the opponent 's right , and your right is in front of his left . |
| 17 | So the people at the front yeah if if you come up a little bit closer . |