Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
| 3 | and the other is , why should I clear up the mess that this guy 's made . |
| 4 | ‘ There was a time recently when a friend of mine said she was in love and could I look up the man in question 's chart and tell her the truth ? |
| 5 | Now then , how do I set up the board ? |
| 6 | How could I pass up a chance of hiring the most beautiful bargee in the solar system ? ’ |
| 7 | Why ca n't I pick up the phone and say , Come on , darling ? |
| 8 | ( Why Why did I pick up the telephone ) |
| 9 | Shall I turn up the light ? " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 12 | Why , then , did you wind up the Department of Economic Affairs in ‘ 69 ? |
| 13 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 14 | Use the words and pictures on these pages to help you build up a picture of what happened . |
| 15 | How do you build up the picture in a regression session ? |
| 16 | Why do n't you tie up a hobby with a purely personal risk like parachuting … |
| 17 | Can you speak up a bit . |
| 18 | Can you speak up a bit please ? |
| 19 | Or is it gon na be turning into something that looks like analysis of oh right so it 's like listen to yep fair enough listen to er a joke and er well I 'll tell you what , can you speak up a bit so we can actually get the conversation on here because the I 'm sure the British National Corpus would be interested . |
| 20 | After a while , he said , ‘ Did you give up the job on the Council , then ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Please can you send up a bottle of Jim Beam , two glasses , a plate of steak sandwiches … ’ |
| 22 | Dear Guitarist Can you clear up the mystery of the early Fender custom colours , Salmon Pink and Fiesta Red ? |
| 23 | How do you bring up a child like that ? |
| 24 | But how did you pluck up the courage to tell the aunt ? ’ |
| 25 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 26 | How long could she keep up the pretence of being a competent sailor ? |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 28 | And how would you sum up a mapping ? |
| 29 | So how would you sum up a function ? |
| 30 | You do in a swimming pool because what happens to you , it makes you keep up the top does n't it ? |