Example sentences of "can [verb] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you can make it up on your own . |
| 2 | Tell me how I can make it up to her . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We can make it up to each other now , ca n't we ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Then you can make it up by purchasing me a change of clothes . ’ |
| 5 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 6 | ‘ It would be useful , ’ he said , ‘ if practitioners were made aware of the information that is required from them so they can build it up over a period of time . ’ |
| 7 | We can lend you up to 3½ times your annual salary , plus your partner 's salary — or 2½ times your combined salaries . |
| 8 | Hold onto all these smells until the evening , when you can deliver them up onto the blank paper . |
| 9 | Why do n't you come up here for a week or two and I 'll show you how to knit a string bag to put hubby in then you can hang him up with the onions . |
| 10 | ‘ Then he can tie them up with the firm . |
| 11 | Chilean fishermen are killing thousands of some of the world 's rarest dolphins so that they can chop them up for bait to catch the southern king crab . |
| 12 | HAVE noticed that any old grandad who can prop himself up on a spade can dig better than I can , and it does seem that although women have virtues not given to men , men also have their gifts . |
| 13 | Once they graduate , the girls can expect anything up to 15 offers of work . |
| 14 | It is the same with the notion that you can bring everybody up to the average . |
| 15 | No , Chief has n't set any questions , erm , the other change to this has been to remove the fire 's special interest and we 've put in as a separate paper , so that we can bring them up to date . |
| 16 | It can be devastating if left unattended , but modern white spot cures can clear it up without too much trouble . |
| 17 | so we can clear it up after . |
| 18 | You can warm them up on the Aga , okay ? |
| 19 | I know but I can warm mine up in the microwave , have you got a meeting tonight ? |
| 20 | The supreme example of spiny defence is shown by the porcupine fish , a small inflatable creature that can puff itself up into a prickly sphere , either with an intake of water when under the surface , or with air when it has been caught and removed from the sea . |
| 21 | The roaring is extremely exhausting for the animals and the one that can keep it up for longest is also likely to be the strongest . |
| 22 | If you are interested do let us know so we can keep you up to date with developments . |
| 23 | Hello Simon , well you can stick your finger anywhere you like , you can stick it up in the air , because you 're victorious today . |
| 24 | You know I said jobs are divided into primary , secondary , tertiary , some , all countries can divide , can divide it up into less developed , developing , and developed . |
| 25 | Velikovsky 's ideas are wide-ranging , but we can sum them up by saying that , about 3500 years ago , the planet Venus was born as a comet , spat from a volcano on the planet Jupiter . |
| 26 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 27 | ‘ We can look it up on the map . |
| 28 | You can look it up in The UFO Report , by Timothy Good , if you like . |
| 29 | I 've called it R P to distinguish it from Spearman 's which we 're gon na do next week , but you can convert the value of R to a T score and if you 've got a T score you can look it up in T tables to work out whether it 's significant . |
| 30 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |