Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [vb infin] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what sort of pay formula would you like to see them come up with ? |
| 2 | She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’ |
| 3 | I only wish Tata had lived to see me take up my place at Bedford College . |
| 4 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 5 | Company managers have been asked to provide support for smoking employees who may find the new policy difficult to follow , and if required , staff will be offered counselling to help them give up . |
| 6 | To help them grow up strong . |
| 7 | Your midwife and doctor , though , see many pregnant women , so they need to use all their skills to help them build up a picture of your individual , unique pregnancy . |
| 8 | The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues . |
| 9 | In The Hitch-hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy the author , Douglas Adams , describes a planet inhabited by a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings who build a hyperintelligent computer to help them come up with the answer to Life , the Universe and Everything . |
| 10 | If , at the end of this year , the total funds — I reckon those to be £44 million , but that figure may not be quite accurate — are underspent , will my hon. Friend advertise for people who , from 1989 to 1991 , did not receive their full allocation and allow anyone , including my constituents , to apply to help them use up any unused balance ? |
| 11 | I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind . |
| 12 | This could be in the form of simple notes , but a better way is to compile a revised shot list in which the details are given together with other editing information ( eg ‘ delete first six seconds ’ ) to help you set up the edit-points quickly . |
| 13 | On alternate days walk at a slower pace to help you build up a regular habit of walking . |
| 14 | Use the words and pictures on these pages to help you build up a picture of what happened . |
| 15 | To help you draw up a shortlist from the dozens of good new varieties on offer , the accompanying table will help you choose the pick of the bunch . |
| 16 | This is the idea , this is , it 's going to help you break up things into work and non-work . |
| 17 | Try processing all the relevant information contained in the problem to help you come up with one plausible explanation . |
| 18 | ‘ You are a good second class student , ’ was his verdict ; ‘ my job is to help you scrape up enough marks to push you over the border line . ’ |
| 19 | He was a welder that used to help us make up er special tools and things to break down tyres with and the little four-wheeled trailer with it , B-Seventeen wheels on it that Billy has in was made by him . |
| 20 | No matter what species are chosen , it is always wise to buy a few small juveniles , or sub-adults , depending on the fish 's eventual size , and to let them grow up together . |
| 21 | Far better to let them grow up safe than expose them by making himself conspicuous . |
| 22 | ‘ All right to let him come up ? ’ |
| 23 | The bearer slowed to let him come up with him . |
| 24 | That 's all right — it is better to disperse the feeling than to let it build up . |
| 25 | Oh and you used to let us stop up and watch him , it must of been on at about nine o'clock or something |
| 26 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
| 27 | It was important enough to make me come up here to ask Dr Bailey about Christabel LaMotte . ’ |
| 28 | To make them stand up without toppling over needs an understanding of balance , and vocabulary related to over-balancing , top-heavy , etc. can be introduced . |
| 29 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 30 | She used to get angry and go and pull the bedclothes off Anthony and his friends to make them get up and get out . |