Example sentences of "would [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me an ’ Gerry 'd build up the kitchen fire and we 'd sit there and talk about what we 'd do if we won the Irish Sweepstake . |
| 2 | I 'd collect up the photos and put 'em hon the bed . |
| 3 | And I thought she might have come today cos she said she 'd bring up the money but she has n't , not yet . |
| 4 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 5 | Many years ago — back in the early '70s , I think — Burt Reynolds called up Warren Beatty and me and formed Marriage Anonymous on the theory that if any of the three of us got tempted to get married we 'd ring up the others and we 'd go round and make them drunk . |
| 6 | We 'd ring up the police , who would take a bunch of these youths into the same exit and do'em over . |
| 7 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 8 | They were always having a go , the hard men , those who 'd blow up the Pope if they thought it would help the cause . |
| 9 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 10 | he used to go to the house and he 'd measure up the body and I |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd go up the coffee stalls and peddle his arse for money . ’ |
| 12 | Apart from that , who 'd pass up the chance of an idle moment together ? |
| 13 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 14 | ‘ One of the things he did was this : On the quiet he 'd heat up the ends of two thin iron rods . |
| 15 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 16 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
| 17 | Draconian spending cuts through a cap on welfare and other non-discretionary ( entitlement ) spending , which would lead to nearly £300bn worth of savings over five years , defence cuts , a domestic freeze and the taxpayer check-off which could result in a maximum of $50bn in spending cuts , would make up the shortfall created by his proposed tax incentives . |
| 18 | Q. Who would make up the shortfall ? |
| 19 | Adding in the cost of the bus fare would jack up the APR to 33.7 per cent — more expensive than the local shop . |
| 20 | When Major stood outside Downing Street and promised ‘ a nation at ease with itself ’ , he was seen as a leader who would scoop up the votes of ‘ do n't knows ’ and floating social democrats . |
| 21 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 22 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 23 | It would dry up the flow of Japanese credit to all American borrowers , private or public . |
| 24 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 25 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 26 | Two Irish goals would bring up the century in Charlton 's seven-year reign , during which he has lost only nine of 69 full internationals . |
| 27 | Jones , a £600,000 bargain buy from Crewe last October , hoped that rest over the summer would clear up the problem . |
| 28 | After winning the AAA multi-events championship at the Don Valley Stadium two weeks previously , the Border Harrier had hoped that a short rest would clear up the trouble . |
| 29 | An alternative approach would break up the organisation according to some other criteria but implement each section in turn and allow for integration later . |
| 30 | During the summer of 1716 , a sensitive time since i August marked the anniversary of King George 's alleged usurpation of the throne , considerable unrest occurred in London where taverns associated with the Whigs were attacked by mobs which would break up the premises but leave enough of the stock undamaged to drink the health of ‘ James III ’ . |