Example sentences of "can [adv] [vb infin] up [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dragonflies have two pairs of wings which have simple joints to them : they can only move up and down and can not be folded back . |
| 2 | ‘ After all , Gav , I can just stay up till your drinking pals have decided to head home , or Norris 's card school chums finally drag themselves away , or crash out and snore on the Richter scale , whatever ; the fun rarely extends beyond three or four o'clock in the morning … why , that would leave me a good four or five hours ’ sleep before an early lecture . ’ |
| 3 | He knows that as long as everybody stays level with the leading attacker they can just step up when the ball is played and the linesman 's flag will be raised . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's easy to be critical by watching television and they may feel that they can just pick up where they left off . |
| 5 | Well you can get I mean , according to the leaflet you can just phone up and get the council to collect . |
| 6 | So if we just get like some stupid photo and we can like dress up and put make up on and really look really pathetic and we can do our little you know , dot dots on there |
| 7 | Those who win money on the horses at Kirkby Lonsdale races in Cumbria can quickly sober up if they wander down from the racecourse to see how their rates have been spent on the adjacent reaches of the river Lune , where the recently cemented banks are dramatically caving in , and attempts at bank protection appear to have made matters worse . |
| 8 | You can surely stand up and just put your arms round me . ’ |