Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 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 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 5 | I used to drop in to have a word with the old man — cheer him up a bit . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I 'll have a look at her while I 'm here , cheer her up a bit . ’ |
| 7 | You know , hold her hand and cheer her up a bit . |
| 8 | Butter him up a bit . |
| 9 | It escapes me why he has n't had a spell in the reserves to shake him up a bit . |
| 10 | It have fluffed it up a bit . |
| 11 | Right , well nothing 's happened here , let's just stick a bunsen under it , warm it up a bit , get it moving . |
| 12 | The whole thing sobers us up a bit , but unfortunately not much . |
| 13 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 14 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 15 | The internal-combustion engine probably chews them up a lot more than anything that 's gone before , but the Patients themselves do n't alter . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Shall I bring you up a tray , or will you come down ? ’ |
| 18 | Can I bring you up a cup of tea or something ? |
| 19 | The doctors , you know , they 've got to patch you up a bit . ’ |
| 20 | have made you up a bed in the spare room I |
| 21 | your horn and cut him up a bit . |
| 22 | Just something for to pep her up a bit . |
| 23 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Like that , ’ said Lee pushing it up a bit . |
| 25 | my coffee 's got cold , that has n't stayed warm very long has it ? , perhaps I did n't heat it up hot enough to start with , I 'll warm it up a bit . |
| 26 | Different levels of comedy is where they actually break it up a bit which erm |
| 27 | Break it up a bit . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ But I could knock you up a couple of poached eggs or a buck rarebit — how would that do ? ’ |
| 30 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |