Example sentences of "we can [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not mean decent Conservative values like the Citizen 's Charter or dreaming of the classless city ; I mean authentic Conservative values , like a social hierarchy in which power follows the rich who do not have to answer for their acts to hoi polloi , in which we do not have to feel responsible for anyone 's poverty or ill health , in which we do not have to ask questions about where the rich get their money from , and we can carve up the land to create a sort of apartheid state : each tribe to its own homeland . |
| 2 | Using the measurement focus , we can move up the balance sheet ( in the UK ) and decide whether changes in each line-item within assets affect the operating statement . |
| 3 | we can blow up the photos if they 're like quite good ones |
| 4 | I accept that , if there are unnecessary bureaucratic rules or regulations or ways to get forms filled out singly rather than in triplicate , we shall do everything we can to speed up the process . |
| 5 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 6 | We can keep up the pressure for more treaties just as public pressure led to the signing of the INF treaty in 1987 . |
| 7 | Other people 's perceptions of us are there to be collected if only we can pluck up the courage to ask for them . |
| 8 | Yes , that 's okay , it 's just that originally you see , we had an outbound tonight as well mhm , yes okay I think we can pick up the pieces from there . |
| 9 | We 're off to see how high we can get up the Hochhauser . |
| 10 | We can sum up the thread of the argument here by saying that binary oppositions , such as masculine/feminine , are not themselves the first principles of semantics and human cognition , they are a system grafted on in the attempt to analyse those things . |