Example sentences of "[vb base] up [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , I wish I had a two-pound coin for every toilet I 've burst into , hissing at myself : ‘ Stoppit will you for Godsake you 're forty years old will you stoppit STOPPIT GROW UP YOU BERK I am not crying I am NOT GOING to give them the satisfaction — waaaagh ! ! ’ |
| 2 | Cheer up your Christmas cheeseboard with a mouth-watering Connoisseurs Choice special selection pack of three traditional English cheeses . |
| 3 | So cheer up my lads , fuck 'em all . ’ |
| 4 | Come cheer up my lads , 't is to glory we steer , |
| 5 | Only Ron Howard could still manage to make a western like Far And Away , a hallucinatory fantasy of American origins in which native Americans look on indulgently as a bunch of white men carve up their land . |
| 6 | I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’ |
| 7 | Hurry up your mother wants to By the way your tea 's ready . |
| 8 | Some criteria and methods for ‘ assessing ’ and ‘ accrediting ’ what had been learned would gradually emerge , serving to validate the teaching contract , regulate entry to the emerging ‘ discipline ’ and generally build up its identity and status . |
| 9 | During this period the Board has also had to find its feet , build up its staff resources to the planned level and concern itself with the production of some weighty discussion documents . |
| 10 | Because of the complicated way in which plotters build up their output they are usually ‘ intelligent ’ . |
| 11 | There Ford 's management ( dominated by Henry Ford ) declared that they proposed to limit dividends in order to lower the price of cars and increase employment , so as to spread ‘ the benefits of this industrial system to help [ the employees ] build up their lives and their homes ’ . |
| 12 | Yet we often find that in such societies the arrangement of highly unorthodox marriage alliances between " wrongly related " kinsmen or between non-kinsmen is an essential part of the fabric of small-scale politics through which men of influence build up their power . |
| 13 | So , the object of that part of the project is to try and address that issue , to try and make sure that N V Ss build up their links with environmental groups . |
| 14 | The gradual return in late summer may reflect differences in the behaviour of experienced adults , and juveniles learning the best places to feed , and build up their energy reserves for the winter . |
| 15 | The aim of the programme is to develop the skills of parents of babies and young children and build up their self-esteem by : |
| 16 | In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle . |
| 17 | Build up her strength . |
| 18 | Build up her strength . |
| 19 | ‘ If I build up my business the way I hope I can , I may well need a partner . |
| 20 | I will have to be patient and then build up my knee for next season . |
| 21 | Because so many parents were asking her how they could help their children with reading , teacher and mother of three Barbara Geere wrote Seven Ways to Help Your Child With Reading ( Seven Ways Series , £1.95 ) , which sets out simply how to make a start , build up your child 's confidence , make reading fun ( with plenty of learning games to make or buy ) and , at the end , how to form letters . |
| 22 | Divers build up your experience before diving offshore , get fit , keep fit . |
| 23 | So you 'd have to start looking for these patterns , but you need to build up to those , build up your experience so that you 've seen them . |
| 24 | You can take these courses either as an undergraduate and build up your degree over a few years or pursue a particular interest by taking these courses on a ‘ one-off ’ basis as an associate student . |
| 25 | As you build up your experiences over the years , you will develop almost a sixth sense and know when to medicate — and when to leave well alone . |
| 26 | Assess and build up your bargaining power early on , preferably well before negotiations start . |
| 27 | As you build up your walking program , you will need to increase the length of your circuit if you are going to cover several miles . |
| 28 | So , start with a stem and gradually build up your design from that . |
| 29 | Build up your time in the sun gradually — start with half an hour or so . |
| 30 | Then start slowly , and build up your speed as you go along . |