Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other . |
| 2 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 3 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 4 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 5 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 6 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 7 | . I I i i in a way I want to back up the point Mr has just just made . |
| 8 | But if I want to move up the ladder I 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 9 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 10 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 11 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 12 | ‘ I want to set up a club for keen fly fishermen , all those anglers who pursue game fish like trout and salmon . |
| 13 | The problem is that I want to start up a shareware library , but I have no idea of how to obtain the shareware titles . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to ride up the front with you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I want to walk up the other valley too , ’ said Betty . |
| 16 | On this last day I want to sum up the things we have discussed . |
| 17 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 18 | Independently , or in conjunction with BAIE or IPR or others , I hope to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications , and wonder whether the PCC could be persuaded to be represented ? |
| 19 | If not , how could I begin to build up a support network ? |
| 20 | Halfway through my wash , I happened to glance up an notice one particularly well-hung lad studying my privates with a look of some amusement . |
| 21 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 22 | Standing motionless , a yard inside the room , I began to pick up a strange hissing noise . |
| 23 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 24 | I was thinking about life , the universe and how much I liked Kim Carnes 's voice ( a voice that makes you regret moving to filter cigarettes ) on the tape-deck when I began to conjure up a mental picture of Billy Tuckett . |
| 25 | ‘ I like to keep up a brisk pace . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I like to work up an appetite for my breakfast . |
| 27 | ‘ I like to build up a good bed of hops . |
| 28 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 29 | I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done . |
| 30 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |