Example sentences of "it up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 2 | Steve and I shared the one room upstairs and tried to do it up a bit . |
| 3 | ‘ Like that , ’ said Lee pushing it up a bit . |
| 4 | ‘ I got read tired of being indulgent , ’ says Mark , so he sought ‘ a sweet voice to sing the hard songs , and vice-versa to mess it up a bit . |
| 5 | I have always thought that the sweetening of the waters of Marah resulted from the removal of the iron by the coagulation and flocculation of iron/tannin complexes , the tannin being derived from that tree — though I think that he [ Moses ] would have had to have bashed it up a bit first . |
| 6 | that the Germans had tidied it up a bit and turned it into a garden . |
| 7 | I usually play with my own phrasing and kind of jazz it up a little . |
| 8 | ‘ Diana needs someone sparky who likes to whoop it up a bit . ’ |
| 9 | Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture . |
| 10 | ‘ Honey , ’ he said , without thinking , ‘ it 's time you started to live it up a bit . ’ |
| 11 | Now that we have seen how this very simple pattern is created , we can go on to fancy it up a bit . |
| 12 | ‘ If I find it , should I slice it up a little ? ’ |
| 13 | Allen told a conference prior to the company 's annual meeting that March calling volumes were strong , ‘ even discounting for some weather which popped it up a bit . ’ |
| 14 | We 'll move it , start weekend , speed it up a little . |
| 15 | Cos then you can draw it up a little tighter if it 's too loose , if it 's like that and , most people do it too loose , is that tight enough ? |
| 16 | Right I 'll just draw it up a little bit tighter , is that tighter for you ? |
| 17 | I am proposing to dress it up a little , as Joyce did to his Nora , as a symptom of high-mindedness . |
| 18 | It 's getting it 's getting it up a bit is n't it ? |
| 19 | So in order to speed it up a little bit we might need need to heat it up . |
| 20 | We 're going to have to heat it up a little bit . |
| 21 | Three so she 'd say , Oh you know mind I 've cut it up a bit do you you should n't it 's still a quarter still a quarter you have n't lost a bit of it but it 's still a quarter three twelfths is the same as a quarter . |
| 22 | Right , well nothing 's happened here , let's just stick a bunsen under it , warm it up a bit , get it moving . |
| 23 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 24 | It would put it up a semitone , so it would be a normal B. |
| 25 | And then lift it up a bit off the table . |
| 26 | And then , leaning back in his chair , lounging like all the gentry seemed to do , as if they were permanently half asleep and just about to put their spurred and booted feet on the table , he 'd said , " If the new government won t play your way then you 'll have to stir it up a little , wo n't you ? " |
| 27 | These consist largely of exposition and practice with the occasional excursion into recreational mathematics ‘ to spice it up a bit ’ . |
| 28 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 29 | But the dressmaker had obviously decided it was too plain and added a few frills to liven it up a bit . |
| 30 | His strike inspired Cliftonville to step it up a gear , but the visitors defence put up the shutters and survived — despite the last-gasp controversy . |