Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb base] up [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I still fold up my paper bags . |
| 2 | He is a famous writer , so I also tear up his manuscripts and books . |
| 3 | I never make up my mind until about |
| 4 | There can be no progress while for sheep there are headage payments which simply prop up our less efficient competitors in mainland Europe . |
| 5 | so you only pick up your gain and drop your gain back |
| 6 | But before you finally make up your mind , you must decide where you stand in the ‘ follow the flag ’ controversy.2 I personally gave that one up decades ago . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's too late to do much about it except to make sure you always lock up your personal computer . ’ |
| 8 | If you ever get up our way call in to see my old lassie , ’ he took and held their hands . |
| 9 | I tell you what I think sometimes you probably pick up your ashtray the doors open it was warm . |
| 10 | And Alex will show you how to pick up a call , you simply just press a number , and you then pick up whatever call is there . |
| 11 | You then open up their petr you open up their erm petrol tank |
| 12 | Oh , that 's where we usually end up I 'm afraid . |
| 13 | So , if gives evidence , having become competent because he has pleaded guilty , erm , then we can cross-examine him , but we are in difficulties if we then bring up his previous convictions attack his credibility . |
| 14 | When parents or teachers mock our desire to become a deep-sea diver , an opera singer or a portrait artist , and encourage us to have more ‘ sensible ’ ambitions — perhaps to become a nurse , bank clerk or accountant — we obediently wrap up our fantasies with a label which reads ‘ This is an impossible dream ’ , and so fail to take any steps to make those dreams come true . |
| 15 | They are characterised by having no mouth and an enormous nose — to eat , they presumably snort up their food . |
| 16 | But they also throw up their arms , and say there is nothing they can do except hope that people power will prevail and the self-styled ‘ great redeemer ’ self-destruct . |
| 17 | If you think about the taxation issue , you know , the government in Westminster exercises very stringent controls over what local governments can spend , how much they can borrow , what they spend it on erm if they do n't like it they apply financial sanctions to , to local governments and if they really get up their nose they abolish the local government altogether . |
| 18 | oh but they really get up my nose ! just wan na do is phone me up , you know I I sa oh had a row with , do n't say anything like about quarter to four time and I said to her , well I 'll be quite honest I said er there 's sixty pound a week or seventy pound a week I get more than you I said I have never heard a load of moaning pratts in all my life ! |
| 19 | They exact ruthless discipline in their refugee camps inside Thailand , and they even shoot up their resistance ’ allies ’ to show who is boss . |
| 20 | At first sight both the earlier and later languages of blazon appear somewhat esoteric , but they readily yield up their secrets , being based on a comparatively small vocabulary , the words of which describe quite accurately both the colours ( tinctures ) , layout , and principal devices used in armorial design . |
| 21 | The irony is that the others sense this but they too cover up that they sense it , and they too cover up their cover up . |
| 22 | Cos it just come up you know , and fetch the top . |
| 23 | And these two fluorines are both saying Oh I 'd really This one 's saying I 'd love one extra electron to go in there , it just make up my set of eight , same |