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Idioms and Phrases
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Just four days prior, the 39-year-old had arrived in Kenya to check up on the work of her Washington, DC-based non-profit.
When a child is brought to see me, especially for an annual check-up, I ask about all aspects of his or her life.
He's officially there to check up on Hank's “illness,” but his real purpose is to detect if Hank is on to him.
I asked if anyone had ever returned to the house unexpectedly just to check up.
Rarely do INL employees visit training facilities to check up on the contractors.
So Beardsley, showing more courage than he felt, trailed the cyberneticist through every unit of final check-up.
You check up on a Rembrandt and you give your okay to a buyer and the dealer gives you a sweet kick-back.
Your reply would be two tugs, and in order to check up, he would give two more in answer.
One morning while out with two other boys and their dogs it fell to my lot to check up on this.
I'll be with you in a second—just as soon as I check up this tally.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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