Example sentences of "you [vb base] 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 | ‘ You do a row of liddle white lines , not too regular , then you back up a row of liddle grey lines next to ‘ em . |
| 10 | The same thing applies when you build up a story in words . |
| 11 | ‘ It can be hard when they die , because you build up a bond with them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | you build up a pattern then you build up a rhythm and eventually you know do it |
| 14 | you build up a pattern then you build up a rhythm and eventually you know do it |
| 15 | Now you hold up a minute , Muvver . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But quite frankly we 'd prefer it if you put up a bit of a fight as we 're a right sadistic bunch . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | there if you clear up a bit ! |
| 20 | Yeah , oh I know I 've said time and time again to them if you park up a bit , you know that house |
| 21 | She came out with us for two or three days and sort of sat you know up a bit and saw us , but then the next week she was really no good at all |
| 22 | Yes , wind them round and this should , should generate a charge which rang bells and sounded bells and then er you lift up a telephone and plug in a jack and , and take a message in that way . |
| 23 | But you need to be careful that you set up a scheme that actually works , and it would be sensible to take professional advice to avoid making a mistake in its tax or National Insurance implications . |
| 24 | Foucault 's genealogy means that by asking a question , posing a problem , you set up a generality against which you constitute events and arrange them in a series . |
| 25 | Reality says that if you set up a store and you 're undercapitalised , you 're going to go bust . |
| 26 | Then you set up a review section which reduces books about famine and war to a star rating for entertainment . |
| 27 | This is analogous to a script language or batch file , in that you set up a file transfer transaction which can be repeated every day , short-cutting the need to highlight and copy individual files . |
| 28 | You should , you , you 're advised not to jog on tarmac because the surface is hard and jars and so if you do a lot of it can you see and if , particularly if your joints are not equal to it , then you set up a lot of trouble . |
| 29 | Well , it does n't look too bad , but I 'll have to ground you till you heal up a bit . |
| 30 | And inevitably when you turn up a diary page you have between say one and twelve things already entered into the to do list . |