Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only returners that some companies regard as worth training are young high-flyers coming back from maternity leave ; it wo n't hurt to shake them up a little . |
| 2 | It went some way to repairing their damaged pride after their defeat by Swindon Town at the weekend , Mickey Inotta was there ; Mickey it must have cheered you up a bit . |
| 3 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 4 | And then , leaning back in his chair , lounging like all the gentry seemed to do , as if they were permanently half asleep and just about to put their spurred and booted feet on the table , he 'd said , " If the new government won t play your way then you 'll have to stir it up a little , wo n't you ? " |
| 5 | You 'll have to have it up a little bit or the same thing 'll happen at |
| 6 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 7 | When you are quite happy and confident with your untidy loops you can start to clean them up a little . |