Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] up [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told her she must give up Christianity and deny , not only God and all the saints , but her father , her mother , and all her friends . |
| 2 | She must pluck up courage and tell him . |
| 3 | No serious thinker disputes that we must clean up factories and cars removing the sulphur from coal , and the oxides of nitrogen from car exhausts . |
| 4 | It sounded more like , she says to me I think you should save up Norma and |
| 5 | FIRMS on the export trail to former Soviet republics should pick up oil and gas work worth £43 million this year , according to Scottish Enterprise . |
| 6 | ½ mile down you should pick up path that soon becomes well defined and leads to ladder-stile in wall 8 . |
| 7 | Police are keeping a watch on all main roads leading to the site , they say they 'll set up roadblocks if necessary . |
| 8 | Normski covered the baize with an enormous Scalextric set , and sometimes he 'll call up friends and they 'll race cars round the track for hours . |
| 9 | Well , at that point we 've got to three o'clock and the end of the term , erm I 'll take up Totem and Taboo , and its more forward lis looking aspects in the first lecture of er , next term , and I wish you all a happy Christmas , and new year , and hope you have a good , a good vacation and look forward to seeing you here again , the first Thursday of next term . |
| 10 | And she were on her about and sailors and what have you and I thought , aye , I 'll know where you 'll end up lady and she has . |
| 11 | Or perhaps she 'll get up market and that . |
| 12 | Fortunately , one or two civil servants realise that the government could build up trouble if it allows a whole generation to grow up with a dislike for nuclear weapons . |
| 13 | Eve was so strange , she could make up tales and then , when everyone had got interested , she would say , ‘ Fooled you ’ . |
| 14 | They were a kind of enabling powers — you could set up circumstances that would fit either . |
| 15 | A £500 washing machine could go up £15 and a £600 TV by £18 . |
| 16 | Well , well they did try to get a song going once sponsored by the club , it was sung by St Matthews ' choir would you believe , but it , it did n't seem to take off , the football supporters seemed to take very much to their own sort of songs , and they , they 'd pick up songs and chants from other grounds now like the Liverpool song You 'll Never Walk Alone , and they used to sing Away the Lads they used to pick that up from the Newcastle supporters and and |
| 17 | The navigator had survived with head injuries but the third crew member was O.K. I signalled to Athens asking them to designate the nearest airfield where I could pick up Brown and White in a Maryland . |
| 18 | Some manufacturers could come up trumps and it is regrettable that we do not know the name of the supplier of a truly splendid set of stamped gilt copper grip-plates with integral coronets and a trinity of really charming chinoiserie bells on the 1777 coffin of the Second Earl De La Warr at Withyam , Sussex . |
| 19 | internal bleeding , right so the internal bleeding sometimes shows itself externally , for example if I had damage to my lungs or severe damage to the inside of my lungs I 'd cough up blood and that 's in , what do you think ? |
| 20 | ‘ Because I 'd shoot up drugs or have parties and get drunk and sleep with boys ? |
| 21 | Our favoured method is undergravel filtration with internal powerfilters occasionally used to clean up tanks or supplement the undergravel systems . |
| 22 | I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again . |
| 23 | Someone who is good at abstract thinking and conceptualising may hold up proceedings and appear to be talking in a void , away from everyone else . |
| 24 | Economists believe a sizeable narrowing from the £2bn current account shortfall for August would shore up sterling and ensure that interest rates rise no higher . |
| 25 | These reivers would round up cattle and horses and drive them back to their own lands . |
| 26 | He was the one who would ring up jockeys and find out their time of birth and so on . |
| 27 | In rare moments of leisure he liked to potter around the garden , and always said he would take up farming when he retired . |
| 28 | Whichever path the algorithm took , that path would pick up shortfall or cost of .1 . |
| 29 | No one expected to reverse the pull of 14 years of refugee resettlement overnight , and there is little doubt that voluntary repatriation would pick up speed if the Hong Kong authorities used quiet persuasion instead of the big stick . |
| 30 | We would pick up supplies and I would continue with the wheelbarrow from where I had left off . |