Example sentences of "you [verb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made .
2 If you pick up a sea cucumber , do so with care , for they have an extravagant way of defending themselves .
3 It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right .
4 I do n't trust you and I shall be breathing down your neck next time you pick up a phone . ’
5 So what you 're saying is then , you like the idea of every time you pick up a phone you make , you earn a pound .
6 O K , you pick up a bonus for that , anybody else on the team come up with something positive about unit linking that 'll make me say , yes , I like this one ?
7 If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes .
8 If , having read this , you pick up a magazine targeted at younger teenagers — for example , one of the pop music or video games magazines — the layout is so ‘ reader-unfriendly ’ that it seems clear that the criteria for ‘ correctness ’ in a layout need , at least , some re-evaluation for this target audience .
9 the er sweets and er chocolates etcetera that er we received , erm I think we in fact er , erm yeah well I , we obviously appreciate them very much because er they were something that we a lot of and erm I know that er , that you must know that when you er were out in Ipswich , Framlingham or around about that er you met up a group , there was a group of children and I 'm sure you heard the er familiar up , chum .
10 Use the words and pictures on these pages to help you build up a picture of what happened .
11 ‘ You do a row of liddle white lines , not too regular , then you back up a row of liddle grey lines next to ‘ em .
12 In the year 18 — you made up a mixture of chemical powders for Doctor Henry Jekyll .
13 When you 've finished with the reptiles , I want you to round up a group of humans .
14 Why do n't you tie up a hobby with a purely personal risk like parachuting …
15 The same thing applies when you build up a story in words .
16 ‘ It can be hard when they die , because you build up a bond with them .
17 As you build up a number of scenarios , you can identify the cells that best show the results of your what-if constructions , and have the results of the various scenarios displayed side by side onscreen or printed .
18 you build up a pattern then you build up a rhythm and eventually you know do it
19 you build up a pattern then you build up a rhythm and eventually you know do it
20 Can you speak up a bit .
21 Can you speak up a bit please ?
22 Or is it gon na be turning into something that looks like analysis of oh right so it 's like listen to yep fair enough listen to er a joke and er well I 'll tell you what , can you speak up a bit so we can actually get the conversation on here because the I 'm sure the British National Corpus would be interested .
23 Now you hold up a minute , Muvver . ’
24 I thought if you hold up a box of Roses chocolates , grin at it and say , ‘ Mmm … great chocolates ! ’ everybody quite correctly will despise you .
25 ‘ Please can you send up a bottle of Jim Beam , two glasses , a plate of steak sandwiches … ’
26 But quite frankly we 'd prefer it if you put up a bit of a fight as we 're a right sadistic bunch .
27 What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots .
28 Have you built up a debt to the bank ?
29 This option enables you to set up a Charge Code for use with LIFESPAN .
30 How do you bring up a child like that ?
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