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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The Feldwebel pointed to the entrance to the station and the mousy man signed to me to pick up the case .
2	‘ You want me to pick up the tab . ’
3	‘ They are trying to sling mud at me to cover up the defeat by Peru , ’ he said , rising to his own defence and pointing a brave if belated finger back at the SFA .
4	‘ I 'm not asking you to write up the interview .
5	You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week .
6	I want somebody whose sitting there listening to the radio sort of er just relaxed and I I just want you to pick up the phone and ring .
7	The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently .
8	I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’
9	You might argue that such an investigation , though time-consuming , would enable you to build up the picture you want .
10	Get into Microfit , when you 're in the data input menu I 'd like you to call up the file Q M four FIT
11	‘ Which is why he was looking for you — although how on earth he expected to persuade you to pay up the difference I do n't know ! ’
12	‘ Let's hope he does n't want you to hobble up the aisle with a leg in plaster . ’
13	I am asking you to take up the privilege .
14	Soon Alejandro was venting his hangover on all the staff , yelling at them to tidy up the place and all the ponies .
15	you know , below the shadow of both the next two properties , we shall , we shall , you know , just have a brick wall , and if they they just shifted the garage to one end and as far as I 'm concerned it 's an excuse for them to put up the power , that is ,
16	Georgina wants me to tidy up the manuscript before she lets Gasset and Lode have it .
17	‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’
18	They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe .
19	This is a unique chance for them to retain the use of this line and I urge them to keep up the pressure .
20	Later , when modern machinery enabled them to speed up the process , the realisation came that twenty-five acres was probably more than enough to cope with , what with the borders , lawns and terraces into the bargain .
21	John would have to help me to back up the computer data with some experimental work .
22	I was n't really listening , just waiting for her to pick up the phone . ’
23	Afterwards he took her to pick up the ring .
24	A COLLEAGUE 'S 4½-year-old son has asked him to set up the video camera in front of the chimney on Christmas Eve to catch Santa on camera .
25	He joined the company in 1960 when asked him to set up the Company 's first electrical department .
26	Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in .
27	‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’
28	Although he was no relation to Charles , his surname had inspired him to pick up the pen .
29	I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his
30	Custodio , who had been in charge of his security , said during the trial that the former armed forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Fabian Ver , who left the Philippines with Marcos in 1986 , had instructed him to draw up the security plan for Benigno Aquino 's arrival .