Example sentences of "up [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Hallowe'en coming up that gave her the idea they 'd had lessons at school about ghosts , witches and Hallowe'en . |
| 2 | Best bought in by the load , it becomes expensive when stacked , composted , mixed with a little poultry , bagged up and given a fancy proprietary name . |
| 3 | The next day , all nine of us were lined up and given our civilian clothes ; we were to take a train to Paris that evening . |
| 4 | He 'd only sustained minor injuries and the drummer had patched him up and given him a pair of free tickets for an anniversary concert in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 5 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
| 6 | This had some value , leading old ladies to get up and give me their seat on public transport . |
| 7 | Pitt remembers that as a little boy attending church he 'd sit cowering in the pew , afraid the preacher would ask him to come up and give the benediction . |
| 8 | Soon something would open up and give him a path to follow . |
| 9 | But , firms are beginning to open up and give us an opportunity actually to take youngsters in and see what it 's all about . |
| 10 | However , so erm she asked me if I 'd go up and give her hand to sort things out , so I was up on the Friday morning and I said well you better phone the corporation and tell them that you 're moving out on Saturday morning . |
| 11 | I just tell him to shut up and give him a sharp rap across the knuckles . |
| 12 | I wish he 'd hurry up and give us it . |
| 13 | Cos Johnny can come up and give us a hand ca n't he ? |
| 14 | Should 've sorted out I mean I ca n't go up , I ca n't go up and give him any more help cos I 'm working tonight and tomorrow night . |
| 15 | This is the pot of gold at the end of every interviewer 's rainbow ; the quest for it can be so tempting that he will abandon normal argument to hammer away a la Walden at one single point until the politician gives up and gives in . |
| 16 | An organiser rushes up and gives a mass of leaflets to a man dressed in combat gear near me . |
| 17 | Mister C hops up and gives me a demo . |
| 18 | This reduces the amount of memory your file needs , speeds things up and gives a much better result at the end of the day than you could ever hope to achieve with a scanner . |
| 19 | In early May at 6 a.m. there was hardly a sound , but the sun was already up and giving the hint of a beautiful day to come . |
| 20 | So with it being conference time , we can get lots of companies who are turning up and giving conference presentations , lots of academic types . |
| 21 | With a bound , he was up and giving chase , hurling himself down the stairs . |
| 22 | The best way to treat special damages is to deal with each item of special damage in a separate paragraph and to have a final paragraph totalling them all up and giving a global figure . |
| 23 | Of course , there are changes in the public sector , changes in organisation — indeed government finds it an almost irresistible temptation to tinker with its machinery , merge departments , break them up and give them new titles . |
| 24 | When you come to detailed programme planning , you need variety and balance and , if you have a great deal to get through and a concentrated message to communicate , you still have to break it up and give people a chance to relax their brains as well as their bodies . |
| 25 | Go on up and give her a shake . ’ |
| 26 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 27 | Come up and give yourself a bit of a wash and we 'll put it on . |
| 28 | This will open eyes up and give bright , clear-looking eyes — especially late at night if you 've got pink-rimmed tired eyes ! |
| 29 | A high six-iron was the mutual decision , since there was just a gentle breeze to hold the ball up and give it a good chance to stop quickly . |
| 30 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |