Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a check the hammer can bounce up and hit the string again , distorting the sound intended by the player . |
| 2 | Without a check , the player has less control , especially when repeating notes , and the hammer can bounce up and hit the string again , distorting the sound and inhibiting the freedom of the player to play loudly . |
| 3 | And now I must pack up and take the road ; you 'll be keeping me company on a long night march , although I know you 're asleep in our nice warm bed … |
| 4 | Her hopes that he might leave something to chance and throw her the opportunity to make her own way back faded as she saw him lock up and pocket the key . |
| 5 | At one point , to suppress attacks , a large handkerchief was thrown over the stuffed cuckoo , but the enraged birds ( in this case , nightingales ) would not give up and assaulted the handkerchief instead . |
| 6 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 7 | He was over Charing Cross Road and well into the Square before some instinct of recognition made him look up and see the place which was still the jewel of London , the haven of fantasies , the last known post of security , the Crystal Rooms . |
| 8 | It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me ! |
| 9 | So I could look up and see the sky . |
| 10 | The truckloads of returned prisoners drove past the office and the girls draped the banner between two windows and hung from the window ringing a handbell so that the men would look up and see the banner and hear them cheering . |
| 11 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 12 | And always , on a clear day , you could look up and see the magnificent , snow-capped Alps . |
| 13 | Not only can he build up and improve the fertility of his land , but also exploit that fertility up to and beyond its latent potential . |
| 14 | Excess LDL , rejected by the now full-up cells are deposited in the walls of the arteries , where they can build up and make the arteries narrower . |
| 15 | Did you set up and supervise the builders ? |
| 16 | Yeah mum 's got ta wash up and pack the sandwiches . |
| 17 | When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother . |
| 18 | Well you can get I mean , according to the leaflet you can just phone up and get the council to collect . |
| 19 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 20 | I shall stand up and sing the national anthem and encourage all those around me to do the same . ’ |
| 21 | I shall stand up and sing the national anthem and encourage all those around me to do the same . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We can do it if the leadership of this nation will just stand up and do the right thing . ’ |
| 23 | On the command of ‘ 1-2-3 lift ’ , both helpers should stand up and carry the person to a chair or bed . |
| 24 | Oh gosh , I mean , well you can , you can stand up and use the |
| 25 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 26 | He should stand up and repudiate the threat in the House . |
| 27 | I 'll go up and pick the bones up and it 'll be alright . |
| 28 | Why do n't you go up and buy the thing ? |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I 'd go up and play the organ in the church . ’ |
| 30 | This is a time when entertainers should shut up and allow the black leaders of the community to take a stand and make a change . |