Example sentences of "[pron] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | next two years trying to sort of get him to bring himself up a bit you know |
| 2 | I 'll write you up a prescription for an antibiotic . |
| 3 | I set you up a mini-orgy , a nice little threesome , and the minute it rocks a bit , nothing a mite of persuasion would n't put right , you start giving an address on the Greek verb ‘ to rub ’ . |
| 4 | have made you up a bed in the spare room I |
| 5 | But I never had to promise , so that 's why I thought it might cheer you up a bit . |
| 6 | The exercise will heat you up a bit . |
| 7 | Now sorry Alan I 've got to turn you up a bit you do n't mind do you ? |
| 8 | The doctors , you know , they 've got to patch you up a bit . ’ |
| 9 | He said you were born old , and that you needed to have a wife to soften you up a bit . ’ |
| 10 | And buck you up a bit . |
| 11 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 12 | ‘ But I could knock you up a couple of poached eggs or a buck rarebit — how would that do ? ’ |
| 13 | Shall I bring you up a tray , or will you come down ? ’ |
| 14 | Can I bring you up a cup of tea or something ? |
| 15 | Then it will wing itself up a bit and fall on to me . |
| 16 | ‘ We do deep breathing exercises instead , ’ said Otley , throwing out his chest to expand his lungs , his paunch moving itself up a notch . |
| 17 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 18 | Yeah , it 'll be nice and you can fix , fix them up a run and |
| 19 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 20 | He would watch their puzzled , attentive faces while Nonni talked about clothes and the latest film she had seen , ‘ jollying them up a bit ’ , as she called it : she thought that because their lives had been man-less , they were therefore dull and sad . |
| 21 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 22 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |
| 23 | Well normally when he gives marrow bones I ask him to chop them up a bit smaller |
| 24 | No that 's part of the the windows washing but I 'll quickly washed over them just to spruce them up a bit but I thought if I put Mrs in that , is she driving , or is she not ? |
| 25 | I think it 's the stomach that 's fatter pulls them up a bit . |
| 26 | Transposed them up a semitone ? |
| 27 | Creeping plants , such as Java Moss , can be trained into shapes , perhaps by growing them up a trellis , or over suitable-arranged rockwork . |
| 28 | The internal-combustion engine probably chews them up a lot more than anything that 's gone before , but the Patients themselves do n't alter . |
| 29 | keep telling me they 're putting them up a lot in the budget . |
| 30 | I asked her to bring me up a pot of tea , and when she had gone , inspected the room further . |