Example sentences of "[vb base] up or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , the Government was obviously concerned about the way the press and radio could , by their manner of reporting , either build up or damage the reputations of political figures . |
| 2 | The S1 and S2 buttons on the GK-2 controller can be used to reassign the footswitches to hold , pitch up or pitch down an octave , control signal modulation or to start or stop the in-built sequencer ( of which more later ) . |
| 3 | It is the condition in which the attempts to avoid , cover up or evade responsibility for bad feeling — bad feeling generated by the impossible need to live up to inflexible standards — themselves create yet more bad feeling . |
| 4 | Put up or shut up ! |
| 5 | PUT UP OR SHUT UP ! |
| 6 | Put up or shut up . |
| 7 | Put up or shut up . |
| 8 | ‘ Now speak up or shut up . ’ |
| 9 | At that stage any pressure may be such a test for faith that the believer is faced with a choice : Give up or go back to square one . |
| 10 | But how , when he had nothing that I could take by force , steal , hide , break in front of him , tear up or trample underfoot , to vent my rage and spite ? |
| 11 | Street pedlars , who buy from wholesalers according to availability and cost , and those who make up or cook foodstuffs for sale , would fit into this group . |
| 12 | Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity . |
| 13 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 14 | Pay up or get out . |
| 15 | Pay up or get out . |
| 16 | Learn from them the strength to risk to say no to the disease : refuse to cover up , tidy up or pay up but allow the sufferer to take the full consequences of the addiction . |
| 17 | Their Game Genie gadget allows players to change the rules , speed up or slow down the action . |
| 18 | The physical process of tendon repair is now well documented and efforts are being made to find drugs which speed up or modify the repair process . |
| 19 | It was her way with the pithy and quotable phrase that drew media attention to her work on the London catwalks in the early Eighties , a knack she called on again in her last collection , studding ‘ Clean Up Or Die ’ on to the backs of leather biker jackets . |
| 20 | Restrictions on investment in each other 's airlines should go , and airlines would be allowed to merge , divest , start up or close down . |
| 21 | A Virgin spokesman said the outcome would be either ‘ settle up or sue ’ . |
| 22 | people usually took the hint and either shut up or left . |
| 23 | 16 Shut up or get out |
| 24 | CENSORSHIP Shut up or get out Michael Meacher , MP , reports on the growing threat to people who blow the whistle on their employers |
| 25 | Further to Micheal Meacher 's article on the censorship of whistleblower ( ‘ Shut up or get out ’ , 1 May ) , nurses , midwives and health visitors are clearly enjoined by their regulatory body , the United Kingdom Central Council ( UKCC ) , that their first loyalty must be to their patients or clients . |
| 26 | Shut up or get out . " |
| 27 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
| 28 | It was a choice of buy up or get out . |