Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] up [art] " in BNC.

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1 Who said I 'll answer me up the end and we can see how we go .
2 And I might , I think I 'll put in there , I 'll make him up a basket of goodies with erm a few telephone stamps on a card and ooh I do n't know what .
3 You stay right there , Rainbow , if that 's what you really want , and I 'll make you up a nice plate and we 'll pass it over to you . ’
4 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 .
5 She 'll ring me up the day before . ’
6 ‘ Send me a Capex and I 'll run it up the flagpole . ’
7 He a big man and if I say I 'm not well he says he 'll have it up the back then and … ’ and I said ‘ Well , you 'll just have to put a stopper in it then , wo n't you ? ’
8 can do your work can do your work or can do your work , whatever , maybe that 'll maybe that 'll mix it up a bit
9 There 's a large room with en-suite bath I can have , and Brian says he 'll fix me up a kitchenette .
10 I 'll write you up a prescription for an antibiotic .
11 So I said to Geoff I 'll get it up the village shop .
12 But I never had to promise , so that 's why I thought it might cheer you up a bit .
13 And we 'll shoot him up the — ,
14 ‘ But I could knock you up a couple of poached eggs or a buck rarebit — how would that do ? ’
15 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
16 ‘ I suppose we could clean it up a bit , ’ says Summerchild reluctantly .
17 They had these cab-drivers in Israel using taxi frequencies to pass on intelligence to Cyprus , and as it came in , so they 'd pass it up the line to the PLO office in Nicosia .
18 He went there , he shook hands , he 'd shake hands with a vulture if he thought he could get him up the pedestal , but that 's neither here , something was done .
19 Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout .
20 I used to ring them up every day but there was nowhere at all .
21 I bought it in village in Mark 's Wood I used to take it up the runway and
22 If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala .
23 He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this .
24 She knew she was clutching at straws but nothing would get her up the West End .
25 It would put it up a semitone , so it would be a normal B.
26 We shall roll them up the more readily , one by one , ’
27 Just a few flowers would brighten it up a bit .
28 The exercise will heat you up a bit .
29 ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’
30 I can stick it up the leg of my drawers . ’
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