Example sentences of "and [vb infin] [pers pn] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told Debbie about the house because they 'd quarrelled , she and her father , and I was afraid that if she did n't try and make it up with him he would change his mind . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Gruagach had been following them , keeping just out of sight , waiting until they dismounted , ready to reach out and scoop them up and carry them back to Tara and the roasting spits … |
| 3 | ‘ John and I would trundle up and wind them up . ’ |
| 4 | Erm , okay the bogie man would come and eat me up . |
| 5 | You could , for example , frighten a child into conformity with your wishes by saying that erm , you know , if , if the child does n't go to bed at the right time , the bogie man will come and eat them up , or something . |
| 6 | General Publius announced to his soldiers that they would soon get proof of the truthfulness of his prophecies : a red wolf would come and eat him up . |
| 7 | Or if she was torn then the doctor would come er and stitch her up . |
| 8 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll show you how to bale and tie it up . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes she would stay like this for hours until one of the care assistants had time to stop and prop her up . |
| 11 | One wanted to go in and break it up , a second to stay back and let them go home . |
| 12 | Erm you must have heard of the phrases of poncing , where somebody is operating a prostitute and if they do n't get a required amount of money a week or er er an amount of money where they consider it sufficient , they 'll probably go and beat them up or something like that . |
| 13 | Well as Michael says , we 're not proud of the results er , and we 're not going to try and dress them up , Michael has n't tried to do that and I certainly do n't intend to . |
| 14 | Er , at some time during the course of tomorrow morning , I 'll try and bring you up to date as to where we are in terms of the items that have fell off the agenda so far . |
| 15 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 16 | And do n't come and do it up here . |
| 17 | ‘ It will be quite hard to step back and give it up , ’ he admitted last night . |
| 18 | Do you want Ann to go and whip you up an apple crumble ? |
| 19 | Well , I can assure you that if you were to go and look it up , you 'd find complaints against policemen in Easton . |
| 20 | What 's the point of teaching something if you can go and look it up in a book ? |
| 21 | I wo n't cheat , go and look it up oh we 're working in pairs though are n't we ? |
| 22 | Thank you very much , and the same to all of you , and I hope you chaps will carry on and use it up properly . |
| 23 | If an insolvency practitioner is appointed as interim receiver , he must give security and if he fails to do so and keep it up , then he can be discharged as interim receiver ( rr 6.54 and 6.55 ) . |
| 24 | Well I think , Bill , if I was to try and sum it up I 'd say that the Social Services settlement was the best of a bad job . |
| 25 | did somebody come and set it up or did |
| 26 | Okay you 've talked to them the phone right and you 're gon na go and sign them up . |
| 27 | Well do n't go and mess it up . |
| 28 | And she says she 'll try and phone me up , but I reckon she does n't even er I sa ask her mum . |
| 29 | Get an upholsterer just to come and tidy it up |
| 30 | Did they try and drag you up the farm yesterday ? |