Example sentences of "and [vb infin] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job paid quite well and I could perhaps at that stage have afforded somewhere slightly better to live , but I 'd got used to my new home and I was still keen to try and build up some savings again . |
| 2 | In his inaugural speech to the Knesset ( Israeli parliament ) on July 13 , however , Rabin said that his government would continue to " strengthen and build up Jewish settlement along the confrontation lines , due to their security importance , and in metropolitan Jersualem " . |
| 3 | When another few minutes went by she was scratching her head to try and think up some way of making sure that Naylor would consider any such notion laughable . |
| 4 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 5 | The skills required to successfully design and make up complex documents are not learnt overnight . |
| 6 | The HP.42 , G–AAUC Horsa , took-off from Basra on August 28 at 22.30 hours , to try and make up lost time . |
| 7 | For those gardeners able to cut out and plant up new beds , the nature of the rose does impose certain conditions if it is to be appreciated fully . |
| 8 | The shelves are full of wonderful food at this time of year and I thought of how I could binge and throw up all day long . |
| 9 | His father died when he was three years old , leaving his mother to support and bring up seven children , providing for her family by opening a greengrocer 's shop and later a modest boarding house . |
| 10 | Even so , I they can go and look up that lot of words in Shakespeare . |
| 11 | Why do n't you go and chase up those roofers for me ? |
| 12 | Delegates signed an agreement on legislative co-operation , including the regular exchange of draft laws and consultative meetings to " co-ordinate and draw up common approaches " . |
| 13 | Some miners used these payments to try and set up small businesses or farms . |
| 14 | Two things that make a people a top earner here of course is one of them one of them in addition to graft , is that they wo n't sit back and sign up one deal and be very satisfied in a day . |
| 15 | ‘ Cyclists should dismount and walk up all gradients greater than 1-in-17 , especially on roads which are poorly constructed and have rocky surfaces . |
| 16 | She said that she woke up one day and did not feel lost or depressed , did not wonder what she was going to do with herself or reach for the phone to try and summon up some company . |
| 17 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 18 | The polecat and its grown family will know to keep as far away from the path and its numbered posts as possible , except in the dead of night when they can sniff around and pick up some bits of Kit-Kat . |
| 19 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 20 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 21 | They was heading off to London that night to go and pick up this griddle for this |
| 22 | One is to try and pick up bypassable traffic and take it away from Harrogate and Knaresborough . |