Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition . |
| 2 | Try to neutralise these tendencies by taking heed of your owner 's complaints , or you may finish up the underdog . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to make up a party with your parents , ’ Isobel said dutifully . |
| 4 | You must build up a small library of your own : one or two books will not be enough ; you should , ideally , have at least two on each topic . |
| 5 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 6 | If they take up that space you must offer up the back page . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just you should speak up a bit more . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't mean you should give up the drugs . ’ |
| 9 | You should open up a bit more , share your problems . |
| 10 | Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column . |
| 11 | Using a wedding bouquet as an example , and assuming that you are either attending the function or collecting the bouquet afterwards , you should make up a simple box , such as the one shown in the photograph . |
| 12 | Assuming that you wish to become one of the select few and possess a suitable radio , you should set up the collective pitch travel in a manner which gives a mirror image of the normal travel when the invert switch is operated . |
| 13 | If you wish to make use of this facility , you should set up the logical name before invoking LIFESPAN ( e.g. you could make the assignment within your login.com ) . |
| 14 | Try and keep the majority of writing to the period of five minutes or so after the interviewee has left , when you should sum up the points while they are fresh in your mind . |
| 15 | You should write up the notes immediately after the call before the memory of the call fades ( see figure 7 ) |
| 16 | You should pick up a chair and throw it at me but |
| 17 | You might build up the fire a little . ’ |
| 18 | He took it — rather as you might pick up a worm in the garden — and popped it gingerly in his mouth . |
| 19 | But you might pick up a thing or two just by looking . |
| 20 | Er , Erm , another thing you might do , you might take up a hobby that you 've got to think about . |
| 21 | IN Tetris on the NES , if you keep select held down during play , you 'll knock up a high score of 10,000 points every time a block lands . |
| 22 | ‘ And I suppose you 'll bring up the rear , if we 're lucky enough to survive ? ’ said Tommy . |
| 23 | It would not would it , so leave it in position and if you need to put another pad over the top , then do that , more pressure and a bigger pad , never take the original one off , okay , leave it on otherwise you 'll open up the wound again and you 'll have all that problem over again , so pad , pressure and elevate , what if it do n't work ? |
| 24 | Right One of the things that er we try to pass on is that you 'll pick up a lot of information which may not be relevant to you but may be relevant to members of your family or friends . |
| 25 | And , they may have one display displayed , but if you go to somewhere like a warehouse or distribution where you go round and pick up your you can go to a garden you 'll pick up a box that 's illustrating a Flymo lawn mower or something and , and it 'll , er they spend a lot of time and money on the packaging , but , a lot of people for pilferage reasons do n't illustrate and that 's good practise not to illustrate , from our point of view , what 's on the package . |
| 26 | After a pause Alison said , ‘ Do you think it will pass and you 'll pick up the pieces ? ’ |
| 27 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 28 | The fridge-freezer otherwise you 'd get up every morning and you 'd have a right mess in your cupboard would n't you ? |
| 29 | This means that if you do an hour 's vigorous exercise instead of sitting in a chair for an hour , you could burn up an extra 100–200 calories which would not have otherwise been used up . |
| 30 | Alternatively , you could step up the exotic look and imitate the Maquis . |