Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb infin] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , it is important to start gently and build up slowly . |
| 2 | I know now he was just trying to make a sale and did n't have my size in stock , but since he was wearing a fleecy top and tracksuit trousers I believed him , and bought these huge leather edifices that a young married couple could quite comfortably live in and bring up a family . |
| 3 | Annie considered that Ann Butler should step in and make up Sarah 's mind for her . |
| 4 | Weeks fifteen to twenty one is subject specific and all the details that have to come in and make up a record of achievement . |
| 5 | ‘ We-ell , they 're forecasting heavy rain , ’ Simon pointed out , ‘ but if I had a key to the cottage I could go in and fix up some temporary weatherproofing until the roof can be properly repaired . ’ |
| 6 | And again , the Record Office is something that lay folk can just come in and look up books and ask questions if they wish to . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ It 's ludicrous that we have to wait for three to five years when a foreign company can come in and pick up a UK TV company right now . ’ |
| 8 | You ca n't just go in and pick up everything you need , you 've got to stop and you 've got to think . |
| 9 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 10 | Korea , Taiwan , Thailand : all present big opportunities , but the view is that these must be handled professionally or the local publishers will step in and clean up , as in fact may already be happening in Korea . |
| 11 | When Dick 's lads are down to seven and a half hours which they are in the erm summertime , I mean we s the lads 'll come in I mean we ca n't pull them off now , but those lads 'll come in and clean up . |
| 12 | Permanent lads will come in and clean up . |
| 13 | We knew the only way we could get in and take up our positions on the roof was by arriving early . |
| 14 | I mean any of us really could sit down and draw up a list of er of things where , if we , you know , a list of rules if e war for a very small subscription ornot many groups other and if everybody stuck by them , everything would be wonderful |
| 15 | No attempts made to knuckle down and smarten up . |
| 16 | I said well I 'll be quite honest mate , there 's two hundred people working in this factory and I said , if you think that e all the charge hands and the supervisors have got to come down and roll up you lot to get the job done I said you turn round and you think if you was in business , whatever it is you like to do , if you 're in business and you 've got an order and that order 's got ta be out by six o'clock tonight and you 've got ta grovel to your workers otherwise you 'd lose that order , I said what would you say ? |
| 17 | Starting Monday and for six days , our panel of highly-qualified experts will take to the road in a bid to help YOU slim down and shape up . |
| 18 | She was looking resolutely away , so that Tug could feel what an effort it took her not to bend down and pick up the pieces . |
| 19 | providing a platform to allow ‘ football specials ’ to set down and pick up ; either the siding behind the south stand or track within the Haymarket depot complex might be possibilities |
| 20 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 21 | Robbie was glad when she could clear away and wash up , relieved when Fen did not offer to help . |
| 22 | He 's offered to go away and come up with incriminating evidence , Robert . |
| 23 | Meg , at the stern , held the rope in her hand , ready to jump ashore and tie up . |
| 24 | He added , ‘ The jackals will come tonight and lick up the blood . ’ |
| 25 | At length , I did manage to roll over and sit up . |
| 26 | Colonel Feather had then expressed a worry that children could easily reach over and scoop up a fingerful of frosting , perhaps spoiling someone 's chances , so he and Mr Doran — the latter complaining mightily about his lumbago — had moved the cakes to the back of the table . |
| 27 | Aware of their vanity and dread of baldness , he would reach over and lift up a lock of hair , saying , ‘ A little more brain showing today ? ’ |
| 28 | MUFC may find that scoring against teams Id not enough to make them roll over and give up anymore . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's only just out of the sick bay himself , and he might fall over and open up that cut again . ’ |
| 30 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |