Example sentences of "[pers pn] up a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rough you up a little , yes ; but they would never have killed you . |
| 2 | When you are quite happy and confident with your untidy loops you can start to clean them up a little . |
| 3 | The only returners that some companies regard as worth training are young high-flyers coming back from maternity leave ; it wo n't hurt to shake them up a little . |
| 4 | And she teased her out and straightened her up a little , and then she went over to the makeup table and tore off a length of the soft toilet roll that she used instead of Kleenex , and then she sat on the floor beside Lucy and put her arm around her shoulders . |
| 5 | Give me a hand , Francis — get the stool out from under him ; straighten him up a little . ’ |
| 6 | I usually play with my own phrasing and kind of jazz it up a little . |
| 7 | ‘ If I find it , should I slice it up a little ? ’ |
| 8 | We 'll move it , start weekend , speed it up a little . |
| 9 | Cos then you can draw it up a little tighter if it 's too loose , if it 's like that and , most people do it too loose , is that tight enough ? |
| 10 | I am proposing to dress it up a little , as Joyce did to his Nora , as a symptom of high-mindedness . |
| 11 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 12 | And then , leaning back in his chair , lounging like all the gentry seemed to do , as if they were permanently half asleep and just about to put their spurred and booted feet on the table , he 'd said , " If the new government won t play your way then you 'll have to stir it up a little , wo n't you ? " |
| 13 | This earring here , this pendant earring just lifts that area up just a little bit , not too much , not too obtrusive , but just enough for sort of a a highlight catching the pendant earring just to lift it up a little . |
| 14 | i pulled this of rec.sport.soccer ( see last part of mail ) — the post was rather mingled so i have tried to fix it up a little : take it for what it is — a post from memory from a guy somewhere and no mentioning of what year/what cup/ etc. i think the poster has messed up or something — my guess is that the home match is the first mentioned : meaning that G has beaten some respectable teams like PSV , Roma and Frankfurt at home and beating Roma and Frankfurt at aggregate . |
| 15 | Anyone else would have had tact enough to at least dress it up a little , she thought wryly . |