Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've got a nasty feeling he may need to jack up interest rates further , but possibly not for very long . ’ |
| 2 | If women want to spend their lives with something that is slim , sanitary and sensitive , perhaps they should consider setting up home with a thermometer dipped in Dettol . |
| 3 | Women who suffer from painful periods should consider giving up coffee altogether , because it constricts the blood vessels in the body and makes their cramps worse . |
| 4 | Greenpeace have recommended that funding agencies should act to set up heating control and energy-efficient light bulb factories in the Ukraine , in an effort to cut electricity consumption and thereby further reduce dependency on nuclear power . |
| 5 | It should begin to open up negotiations with the statutory services which come under the SAD umbrella to see what sort of progress should be made on this . |
| 6 | On reflection Eire Og will probably feel they should have come up trumps , but they were never able to put enough daylight between themselves and their opponents . |
| 7 | Some claim that Disney should have set up shop in sunny Spain rather than chilly Paris . |
| 8 | The printing is so poor I kept checking to see if the ink had come off on my clothes and the editors should have picked up errors like the attribution to Mary Cassatt of a mother and child by Berthe Morisot . |
| 9 | The SPD believed that Adenauer should have taken up opportunities for talks with the Soviets , particularly Stalin 's March 1952 proposal for a reunited but neutral Germany ( which the Western powers saw simply as a Russian bid to prevent German rearmament ) . |
| 10 | He wondered whether he should have taken up farming instead of cooking . |
| 11 | And erm these er he must have given up bicycles when the penny farthing was outdated . |
| 12 | The presence of a population of seldom fewer than 2,000 cormorants , 20,000 gulls ( including the rarest of all gulls , Saunders ' gull ) , 15,000 ducks , 5,000 herons and 10,000 waders must have conjured up nightmare pictures of the risk of birdstrikes . |
| 13 | Such investment over and above plan targets must have speeded up modernization . |
| 14 | I think I must have picked up Paul 's one by mistake . |
| 15 | I will send copies of the correspondence , and we should draft follow up letters . |
| 16 | The young dog must learn to give up items when told to do so without attempting to snap at you . |
| 17 | You 'll have to give up hamsters wo n't you , most definitely . |
| 18 | I know I 'm too thin , I do n't like what I look like and I 've been told if I lose any more weight I 'll have to give up work and be admitted to hospital . |
| 19 | I 'll have to go up top , oh or pre maybe your dad would nip up to shop or something . |
| 20 | The only thing that you have to do Lauren , if we phone up , if daddy says we can go , you 'll have to phone up Victoria tonight . |
| 21 | ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ At first , it looked as though I might have to give up snooker completely but I have persuaded the doctor otherwise . |
| 23 | The meeting broke up , however , without any agreement on a cut in production , which might have pushed up prices , meaning that OPEC retained the official total production ceiling of 22,086,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) which had been agreed at the November 1989 meeting [ see p. 37053 ] . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose I might have ended up bowling up the hill into the wind at Headingley , and that might not have done much for my prospects , but generally the policy change was inevitable , and I am glad it happened . ’ |
| 25 | Although the basic position of the continents had remained unchanged since the Mesozoic , variations in the sea level might have opened up land passages between areas now separated by shallow seas . |
| 26 | Carole 's picking me up , oh she 'll pick me , yeah , but we 've got to go to Epsom anyway so we 'll go pick up Carole 's car and |
| 27 | At the time of writing , Prudential 's shares were at an all time high , which might serve to back up Mr Lawrence 's point . |
| 28 | Okay right John hello John Er he connected well he has n't connected on my well get him get him back get him back we 'll connect hang up John put your phone down What ? |
| 29 | You could finish putting up shelves in the kitchen while he does the ironing . |
| 30 | Articulated with an engine cab towing a carriage behind it , they enjoyed heavy use in country pastures or peat bog , areas where they could stop to pick up passengers anywhere along the way , with good enough acceleration to then hold onto a time-table . |