Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You want me to pick up the tab . ’ |
| 2 | You want me to blow up a railroad station ? ’ |
| 3 | Phone if you want me to saddle up the mare and I 'll have her ready for you by the time you get down here . ’ |
| 4 | This is a unique chance for them to retain the use of this line and I urge them to keep up the pressure . |
| 5 | Er I suggest you pick up the phone and you give us a call now on , alright ? |
| 6 | The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently . |
| 7 | I want somebody whose sitting there listening to the radio sort of er just relaxed and I I just want you to pick up the phone and ring . |
| 8 | When you 've finished with the reptiles , I want you to round up a group of humans . |
| 9 | I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 10 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 11 | Often Hickey is besieged by fans who want him to turn up the vocals and they make their point forcibly . |
| 12 | With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot . |
| 13 | But neighbours say it brightens up the area and they want it to stay . |
| 14 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 15 | Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages . |
| 16 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 17 | Let me pick up a few points which occur to me arising out of what you 've just been saying . |
| 18 | Leaving this aside for the moment though , let us set up a contrast between the two as follows : |
| 19 | Let us sum up the main points . |
| 20 | Let us sum up the discussion so far . |
| 21 | But first let us follow up the possibility that the problem is entirely to do with the estimate . |
| 22 | Should the government dare to interfere with our private domestic life , let us rise to a man and protest and also let us get up a monster demonstration and march four deep to Trafalgar Square . " |
| 23 | Every time we meet he brings up the subject , and Dawn says — ’ |
| 24 | The idea is to get them to trust the staff and their peer group and get them to open up a bit . |
| 25 | So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in . |
| 26 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
| 27 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 28 | Now I filed my nail this morning cos it was catching , I did n't file it long enough obviously , but I filed it with that erm you know you opened up the |
| 29 | Rout out Annunziata , would you , Comfort , and get her to bring up a tray of breakfast . |
| 30 | I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his |