Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door . |
| 2 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 3 | I run up the open wooden steps to the office to ask the price of a self-catering suite . |
| 4 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’ |
| 6 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 7 | They make up half your face in colours to suit you , advising you on technique , and you make up the other half of your face to match . |
| 8 | Yeah you bring up the spare channel . |
| 9 | Then you ride out alone , across the springing grass all beset with tiny jewel-like flowers ; you ride up the rushy mountains and down the rushy glens and come to the mouth of the dragon 's cave . |
| 10 | If you look up the relevant books you will find that eqn ( 3.56 ) may be expressed in terms of elliptic integrals . |
| 11 | You add up the total marks given to your players , divide by x — then roll a dice that number of times and take the highest number rolled … |
| 12 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 13 | a curtain , as you pass up the dark mild street , |
| 14 | Please use it as a reminder to ensure that you keep up the good work and the resolutions you have started . |
| 15 | Losing your erection is easy enough if you store up the right anti-erotic thoughts . |
| 16 | You , you take up the normal I do n't tend to do this , but this is really the best way to do the shot . |
| 17 | Well she come up the other day , they wanted to exchange Kelly 's old house for , for , for her , somebody wants it er part exchange Kelly 's house , you know then go and |
| 18 | You write up the offered words , correctly , without asking how they are spelled . |
| 19 | ‘ In fact the sooner you join up the better . ’ |
| 20 | ( TIM ) Hello there … they all get a look in tonight … as we round up the local sport … on the start line ready to go first is the football parade |
| 21 | We draw up the perfect guest list , and then go about extending the invitations — we have n't yet resorted to blackmail but it can only be a matter of time . |
| 22 | We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values . |
| 23 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
| 24 | Next , we stack up the eight sets of five columns ( period/output/ res price/ σ/k); on top of each other to form a data matrix five columns wide and 64 rows long . |
| 25 | In our part of the world we keep up the brave talk for the sake of the image of the region , so that there may be at least some inward investment and so that those industrialists , small business , training centres , local enterprises and cooperatives which are struggling so hard to make a go of it , will not be discouraged from at least having a go , but there is n't much hope and conviction really . |
| 26 | When we die the work stops , the temperature differential starts to disappear , and we end up the same temperature as our surroundings . |
| 27 | Yeah , well you see it 's quite a point you know , cos if we go up the top shop , we just , well the most I would buy is four |
| 28 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 29 | Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter . |
| 30 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |