Example sentences of "[verb] it up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either . |
| 2 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 3 | They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different . |
| 4 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 5 | In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone . |
| 6 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 7 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 8 | You all know what Strats sound like and what 5-position selectors do , but to get an overall picture of this guitar I lined it up against a regular office hack ( a Tokai hybrid with an old ‘ 58 Fender neck and Alnico Pro II 's in the middle and bridge positions ) and can report that the SRV came out well . |
| 9 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 10 | Michael Green , its creator , built it up from a small photo-processing company . |
| 11 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 12 | Other lenders may advance 95 per cent of the purchase price and then top it up with a five per cent loan from an insurance company . |
| 13 | Erm , I welcomed Chairman the present experiment before us , I hope it succeeds , I hope it sets a continuing example to other parts of the county but you only get what you pay for and in , in we top it up from the seven cuts to I think thirteen or fourteen . |
| 14 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 15 | Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind . |
| 16 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 17 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 18 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 19 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 20 | ‘ Lapping it up like a weak kitten , ’ thought Fergus . |
| 21 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 22 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 23 | Paula , and perhaps we 'll bring it up in a first aid . |
| 24 | Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob |
| 25 | You could have warmed it up with a hot water bottle or a heat pad do n't leave it there with the baby in it , but you can certainly warm the bed first , you can warm the baby 's clothes , keep them in the airing cupboard , or lots of houses around here have Agas do n't they ? |
| 26 | Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year . |
| 27 | Before buying a tie , hold it up by the skinny end , like a fish . |
| 28 | An architectural Gone With The Wind with Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara hamming it up across the Grand Canal . |
| 29 | Look it up in the six textbooks mentioned in chapter 4 , draw a pattern diagram and study the rays or branches one by one , committing part to memory and part to short notes for further use . |
| 30 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |