Example sentences of "[pron] up as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred I am worried with all that money you wo n't lose your head , there are a lot of clever dishonest people ( she means women , he said ) about these days , I brought you up as well as I could and if you do wrong it 's the same as if I did . |
| 2 | In the wild , an owl would find shelter if it was too windy , closing itself up as tightly as possible . |
| 3 | Because of this , and because of the particularly sharp way in which it set itself up as distinct from , and opposed to , modernist culture , this paper will devote a considerable amount of space to it . |
| 4 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 5 | Without slumping forwards , take your arms behind you , holding them up as high and as close together as possible . |
| 6 | As they came out of service , they were driven to Mitcham Road depôt for Cohen 's men to break them up as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | I 've managed to get them pretty manky from time to time and a spin through the washing machine brings them up as good as new . |
| 8 | As you know , I see all appraisal training requests so that I can follow them up as appropriate . |
| 9 | Grate them up as like er , topping . |
| 10 | Old Mangle does n't wind me up as much as this this other one one with glasses . |
| 11 | but he does n't tend to show me up as much now thank goodness , but late one night he really went naughty , you know when they look at you like that sideways and they know that you ca n't wallop them because those |
| 12 | ‘ Are you taking everything up as serious as some of the other people in the house ? |
| 13 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 14 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 15 | We fixed it up as well as we could — which was n't well but it did give us both somewhere to live away from our parents , a first real taste of independence . |
| 16 | Only 11 people turned up but the football team-sized audience asked for an encore and Charman summed it up as ‘ Good . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll get flung off in a minute , but keep it up as long as possible . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll make a proper job of this ! ’ she declared , and putting her fist into the crown , she forced it up as high as she could push it , and wore the resulting sombrero for the rest of the term . |
| 19 | Once the umbilical cord has broken , the stump should be dusted or sprayed with antibiotic to dry it up as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | She turned it up as hot as it would go and put them in on a tray . |
| 21 | A bigger pad over the top , there 's the sling and towards your casualty and place it on the body down the straight and the elbow and the point at the same side , tuck this hand under and tuck all this underneath the arm and bring the rest of it round the back , tie it up as close to the fingers as you can and try to remember how to do a reef knot , at least always make sure it 's firm , is that alright for you ? |
| 22 | ‘ I want you to recall the label of said underpants , summon it up as fully as you possibly can . |
| 23 | According to Jamie , the object of the game is to get a soggy fag-end from wherever it is in the channel along to and down the coverless hole , breaking it up as much as possible en –ute . |
| 24 | Er we we have warmed it up as much I would have said this on the phone , we 've warmed it up as much as we possibly can . |
| 25 | Er we we have warmed it up as much I would have said this on the phone , we 've warmed it up as much as we possibly can . |
| 26 | Rob er Robert but but we really have warmed it up as much as we can . |
| 27 | As long as he can write fast and legibly and they write it up as fast as he , they can . |
| 28 | Obviously if you 've got a load that 'll take a whole van load you build it up as high as you can . |
| 29 | Do you know what I mean , it do n't pick it up as loud and then it comes back again . |
| 30 | Yes , that , that 's , that 's very much part of it , but we want , you know history 's only , only made by people , it 's made by every , you know , all of us really , so you know , we 're asking for groups now to come to us and say , you know , ‘ we want to do a project on X to do with the motorway ’ , and we 'll be prepared to , you know , back it up as much as we can . |