Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |
| 2 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
| 3 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 4 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 5 | The patient 's requirement for frequent repetition of the Phosphorus led me to make up a 5ml dropper bottle as the stock bottle i.e. the LM granule dissolved in 5mls of water and alcohol instead of 100mls . |
| 6 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 7 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 8 | You want me to blow up a railroad station ? ’ |
| 9 | SINGER Patty Smyth attacked two policeman after she caught them beating up a friend in New York . |
| 10 | Twenty-five minutes later , as he climbed the steps of St Martin's-in-the-Field , he found himself offering up a little prayer , its sentiments not so very different from those of the carols this congregation would presently be singing . |
| 11 | When you 've finished with the reptiles , I want you to round up a group of humans . |
| 12 | The old stone walls closed about her , so that at times it seemed to be suffocatingly hot , and she found herself putting up a hand to her throat . |
| 13 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 14 | It is the only course in the United Kingdom which will qualify her to set up a dance and fitness college in the province — a business , she believes , which will afford her children security for the future while fulfilling their mother 's lifelong ambition . |
| 15 | With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot . |
| 16 | And has anyone picked up a copy of The new Square Ball ? |
| 17 | Another has been tested by P T Breuer ( 1991 ) , who used it to speed up a game playing program . |
| 18 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 19 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 22 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 23 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 24 | This allows you to set up a different sound by altering the mid emphasis , coupled with selectable additional boost which can then be triggered by either the front panel ‘ enable ’ switch or via a footswitch . |
| 25 | The sub-menu also allows you to call up a ‘ display usage terms ’ option , and finally , there is a ‘ search personal history ’ category . |
| 26 | Granny-Liz would always stop fanning herself to drink up a glass of iced water . |
| 27 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 28 | Again Ted demurred , but the Parliamentary Party 's unease over the procedure for new leadership elections caused him to set up a review committee under Alec Home . |
| 29 | A new car , a Porsche , showing off to friends , laughing , not really concentrating — The accident should have made him grow up a little . |
| 30 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |