Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pers pn] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could wind her up . |
| 2 | If a grip could be got on the parcel , maybe she could thread it up between the wood and through ? |
| 3 | I could eat her up ’ , or ‘ I 'm not going to take that from him ; it sticks in my throat ’ . |
| 4 | I could eat you up . ’ |
| 5 | The shops were closed this afternoon , but if she would come to the surgery now , he could make it up for her . |
| 6 | But that was on a slower basis than , than he could make it up under the new scheme . |
| 7 | ‘ But I could knock you up a couple of poached eggs or a buck rarebit — how would that do ? ’ |
| 8 | I wish I could hang it up and put on a new one ’ . ’ |
| 9 | Masculine intuition , he thought ; these two , perhaps you should n't trust it , but these two between them could stitch me up . |
| 10 | I think could chop them up and use them to make road surfaces with . |
| 11 | He could chop us up into flitters . ’ |
| 12 | If only I was they could lock me up somewhere quiet and take care of me . |
| 13 | I could n't understand how she could give you up , do n't you see ? |
| 14 | Now she thought that she could give it up for three weeks in the Italian sun . |
| 15 | I could give it up and go to Belfast . |
| 16 | If you could bring them up with you , Christina , that would be great . ’ |
| 17 | " I could bring it up to you , sir . |
| 18 | Would it be a situation if we asked the Town Clerk and er maybe with the Chairman , it 's a little bit difficult , I think the Town Clerk at this stage , to speak to and then if it seems possible we could bring it up at the Planning Committee meeting and arrange a date to go down and have a look , when we 've actually approached the land owners . |
| 19 | I 've got a bit on that , if you want I could bring it up now while you 're talking about it , I will . |
| 20 | She 'd always run into my arms when I did that so I could lift her up , but she do n't do it this time . |
| 21 | ‘ It was so bad they could lift it up , ’ he says , graphically . |
| 22 | I do n't reckon Cantona could beat him up . |
| 23 | Erm is it , It 's not an atom but it 's You could n't break say a piece of uranium or into an atom , but you could break it up into an isotope . |
| 24 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 25 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 26 | We could do it up till Christmas , three monthly or something like that |
| 27 | Yes , what I really meant was I 'm , I forget exactly but we could look it up in you know the Richmond Fellowship file out there , |
| 28 | You could look it up in a dictionary probably to find the origin of the word , people |
| 29 | Oh no we 've got some really hard numbers french if I had a dictionary I could look it up but I have n't . |
| 30 | I mean , we could ring her up and ask her . |