Example sentences of "you [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you pick up that telephone and answer it for an external caller , you 've become Oxford University Press and it 's important that we create the right impression for our customers , whoever they are . |
| 2 | If you , if you are standing like this and you pick up one foot you will slightly raise your pelvis on the opposite side wo n't you ? |
| 3 | What I would suggest is that you pick up 1,000 shares now at … |
| 4 | So you pick up these things . |
| 5 | Time is always well spent when practising steep turns : not the classroom type where you pick up more speed and then go into the turn , but the sort you might use for thermalling . |
| 6 | Along life 's way you pick up little techniques that help you control your behaviour , get your own way , become strong-willed . |
| 7 | I suggest next time you pick up broken glass you try not to be so careless . |
| 8 | it 's not like a Cover Master Living Assurance , where you building up excess cash funds at the same time . |
| 9 | Never be tempted to dig so deep that you bring up raw clay , but work assiduously on the top few inches only , gradually improving the soil deeper each year . |
| 10 | How did you build up this vocabulary and how do you maintain it ? |
| 11 | Can you build up enough pension , when you retire , to take you above the rate of the dependent wife 's pension , which is 60 per cent of the full pension ? |
| 12 | ‘ I imagine art school is a place where you sit up all hours putting the world to rights ? ’ |
| 13 | Once there was a couple of girls who had had their babies and they 'd say to you , " Change the baby for us while I run upstairs and get so-and-so " or " Will you feed the baby for me a minute ? " or " Can you make up some feeds ? " |
| 14 | if you round up half way through the way you were going to do then |
| 15 | Have you picked up that plant ? |
| 16 | And each year you moved up whether you were good , bad or indifferent you moved up one class , you see . |
| 17 | I says , well I can tell you what you phoned up three times on t' row for , I says , you 've no money again have you ? |
| 18 | It maybe faithful for a long time , perhaps you build up that trust , and it 's only once you 've got beyond that , that you can then begin to actually influence er , negotiate with them . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |
| 20 | You have a track record and you build up this understanding and you acquire the skills , and it gets easier and easier . |
| 21 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 22 | But what would you do if you woke up one morning to find that suddenly you had the chance of starting with a totally clean slate , and putting together your own system . |
| 23 | Did you feel more positive about your future when you woke up this morning ? |
| 24 | because when you woke up this morning |
| 25 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 26 | It 's when you walk up that way you know you 're getting near it |
| 27 | Notice as you walk up this path the difference between the plantation on the left , which has a mixture of broadleaf and coniferous trees , and that on the right which is mostly pine . |
| 28 | Could you give up these advantages , or achieve them in more direct and positive ways ? |
| 29 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 30 | You put up this front to protect yourself . |