Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I said , ‘ Let's knock up a quick vocal and let's knock up Keith 's guitar , ’ and he just banged up a solo very quickly and it was great . ’ |
| 2 | For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness . |
| 3 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 4 | We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick . |
| 5 | For example , a designer may build up a sequence of actions which an operator must follow in order to cause his product to function properly — he has synthesised the task from a knowledge of how the machine or other product was designed to function . |
| 6 | It is thought that the defence is most relevant in the context of take-overs where a merchant bank may build up a stake in a target company for a prospective bidder . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 9 | Using a wedding bouquet as an example , and assuming that you are either attending the function or collecting the bouquet afterwards , you should make up a simple box , such as the one shown in the photograph . |
| 10 | Mono-unsaturates ( MUFAs ) should make up the largest proportion of fats consumed . |
| 11 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 12 | It did , however , recommend the immediate closure of the two oldest of Sosnovy-Bor 's four reactors , and suggested that nearby Western states should make up the energy shortfall to enable this to take place . |
| 13 | They must spring up the trees as the monkeys are driven into them and they are the ones that usually make the kill . |
| 14 | You must build up a small library of your own : one or two books will not be enough ; you should , ideally , have at least two on each topic . |
| 15 | We should build up the Western European Union as the defence pillar of the European union , but the treaty embodies the view set out in the Anglo-Italian proposal two months ago , and endorsed at last month 's summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that whatever we do at European level must be compatible with NATO . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | At the end of the lease the tenant must yield up the premises , together with all buildings , fixtures , trees , and plants thereon , including even what he has himself added ; but to some extent this rule is relaxed in favour of trade and agricultural fixtures ; and a right to remove tenants ’ fixtures may be given by the terms of the lease . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just you should speak up a bit more . ’ |
| 19 | It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole . |
| 20 | And people who strangle their infants , thus causing their admissions , must give up the practice thereafter . |
| 21 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 22 | I suppose I should warm up the audience with a few Hound of the Baskerville howls , send Rainbow 's eyes swirling round like Roman candles , and cause fruity Yiddish curses to croak and gibber from her mouth . |
| 23 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't mean you should give up the drugs . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is not suggested that the teacher should keep up a non-stop commentary or continually repeat the children 's answers and comments for the benefit of the rest of the group . |
| 29 | Here we shall look at the principles by which various methods of measuring velocity work ; the reader interested in the arrangements of a full working system and the procedures for operating it should follow up the references . |
| 30 | To justify their hold on this island far into East Germany , the West Germans must keep up a good show of a thriving community in West Berlin . |