Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it seems that if I go Steve , right , bring me up a dozen sweets and I have n't selled one of them well that would be |
| 2 | On another subject could someone who is going to the game pick me up a match programme . |
| 3 | Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake . |
| 4 | I used to drop in to have a word with the old man — cheer him up a bit . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I 'll have a look at her while I 'm here , cheer her up a bit . ’ |
| 6 | You know , hold her hand and cheer her up a bit . |
| 7 | Butter him up a bit . |
| 8 | Right , well nothing 's happened here , let's just stick a bunsen under it , warm it up a bit , get it moving . |
| 9 | Put them up a what ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | your horn and cut him up a bit . |
| 12 | But I was rewriting that to try to get the lines to work and all of those things , and they mess it up a little bit , which annoyed me . |
| 13 | Different levels of comedy is where they actually break it up a bit which erm |
| 14 | Break it up a bit . |
| 15 | Um I think that um y'know it 's often quite intimidating to be confronted with y'know sort of say eighty odd questions , if you were to use that many , erm so if you if you kind of break it up a bit in some way and have different headed sections with slightly different format questions it might y'know kind of help people through it as it were . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Event officials bearing lit staffs wave me up a grit track towards this almighty swim . |
| 18 | Well , just wrap me up a couple then and I 'll put . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Halfway along the path , I lift her up a second time . |
| 21 | And then lift it up a bit off the table . |
| 22 | ‘ Might put 'em in the oven , freshen 'em up a bit . ’ |
| 23 | Tidy it up a bit and if we get time |
| 24 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 25 | ‘ You could nip across and introduce yourself — chat her up a bit and try and mention the possibility of anonymous letters . |
| 26 | so glad that she 's my little girl she 's so glad she 's telling all the world Turn it up a bit then . |
| 27 | Turn it up a little bit more . |
| 28 | We 'll move it , start weekend , speed it up a little . |
| 29 | Alright back it up a bit . |
| 30 | Give me a hand , Francis — get the stool out from under him ; straighten him up a little . ’ |