Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 2 | Alternatively , if you expect to be in a high earning bracket , you might consider setting up a limited company , even if you are the only salaried employee , rather than launching the same business as a self-employed individual . |
| 3 | We would n't wish to do that , but nor would we want to open up a free for all . |
| 4 | The Democratic Platform at a conference on March 18-19 had begun discussing whether it should prepare to set up a new political party immediately after the July congress , if its policies were not adopted . |
| 5 | Alternatively , the firm can choose to set up a local operation and simply ‘ clone ’ the domestic business in the foreign country . |
| 6 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 7 | Will others choose to keep up a continuous presence in covering Yugoslavia in the way that we have over the past year ? |
| 8 | Q Please could you give me some information on Red Shiners , as I would like to set up a coldwater tank in which to keep some . |
| 9 | We would like to set up a SPRED group in this area but we need helpers . |
| 10 | They can co-ordinate only within the south-east of England , but if you would like to set up a local group , Chris Milton has prepared information sheets and can put you in touch with other interested people in your area . |
| 11 | I 'd like to set up a different sort of help-line , something informal and friendly where the employees wo n't be afraid to discuss their problems . ’ |
| 12 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 13 | And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night . |
| 14 | No I would n't , cos I might have picked up a different thing . |
| 15 | She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully . |
| 16 | How long do we try to patch up a failing plan ? |
| 17 | He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty . |
| 18 | The one big difference is that you wo n't have to pick up a free ticket at the exhibition prior to the race . |
| 19 | By this stage of your career you will have built up a small personal library comprising books of great variety . |
| 20 | ‘ Granny 's little extortion racket must have built up a small fortune for you . ’ |
| 21 | One of the most important limitations on statutory safeguards is the insistence that , to qualify for most rights , you must have built up a specified period of continuous employment . |
| 22 | Governors may wish to draw up a common procedure which applies to all staff working in the school . |
| 23 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 24 | He is the sort of young player who should be encouraged ’ He believes Salisbury could have struck up a deadly partnership with Phil Tufnell . |
| 25 | There was no question but that the army , the Lebanese Forces militia , and a whole new wave of volunteers would have put up a desperate resistance . |
| 26 | He might have put up a good show the other day , but that was because he was frightened . |
| 27 | During the subsequent exploration of New Zealand and Australia , Green was , in Cook 's words , ‘ indefatigable in making and calculating these observations [ for latitude and longitude ] which otherwise must have taken up a great deal of my time … |
| 28 | Truthfully , of course ; I 'd see how it sounded , and if it were too reprehensible , well , I 'd just have to think up a good lie , that was all , right now at the outset , and stick to it until perhaps I 'd begin to believe it myself . |
| 29 | The advantage of this scheme is that you do n't have to think up a new name of each backup — the nesting of one directory within another takes care of that . |
| 30 | A robin will attack a bundle of red feathers , a socialist politician will verbally attack a right-wing conservative , a spider will attempt to tie up a vibrating tuning fork if the tip is placed upon its web . |