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Example sentences of "[verb] i [verb] up " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’
2	I only wish Tata had lived to see me take up my place at Bedford College .
3	Surely you do n't want me to give up my evenings too .
4	‘ Do you want me to give up racing ? ’
5	Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting .
6	‘ D' you want me to go up and tell him ? ’
7	Do you want me to go up and get you some ?
8	‘ Do you want me to shut up first , or get you out and then shut up ? ’ said the Thing .
9	Do you want to , do you want me to shut up while you write that down ?
10	‘ I tend to keep quiet about it — otherwise most of the women I know would want me to draw up their horoscope !
11	Do you want me to get up to , try and get up
12	‘ Me too , ’ I agreed , ‘ but my Mum says she do n't want me growing up like Sally Buckley . ’
13	I mean that our dad was gon na come up , he says do you want me to come up , but there 's nowt you can do though
14	Mum an , mum and dad expected me to come up last week
15	Says Teddy , encouraging me to look up , to distract from the mess , not a good idea considering .
16	‘ My father would make me stand up straight and sing the national anthem four times .
17	Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’
18	It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’
19	The organization which you asked me to set up now exists , at least in embryo .
20	They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’
21	‘ Then , about a month later , he asked me to go up to Camp David while he and his family were using the facility .
22	I should have spoken to you this afternoon about the stock footage you asked me to follow up on .
23	‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen .
24	‘ He did n't mention you until he asked me to come up here with him . ’
25	The patient 's requirement for frequent repetition of the Phosphorus led me to make up a 5ml dropper bottle as the stock bottle i.e. the LM granule dissolved in 5mls of water and alcohol instead of 100mls .
26	Toying with that idea started a train of thought about some of the other activities probably open to super-beings , which led me to conjure up some images of myself with Sergia , the Ardakkean , minus her costume , in the Orgitunnel .
27	One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there .
28	times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now .
29	It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place .
30	And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came .