Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing !
2 On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’
3 Revenue from normal trading fell , but the club made it up from the transfer market .
4 That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way .
5 As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ .
6 A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing .
7 If a teacher leaves it up to the pupils to work on their own initiative , will they miss out on essential skills while coming to grips with being responsible for their own learning ?
8 But Magilton wrapped it up with a fierce free-kick .
9 Lee Sharpe 's fourth goal in three games opened the way after seven minutes , Cantona rapped in a 45th minute penalty and Steve Bruce wrapped it up with an 88th minute header .
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11 Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand .
12 Having fallen in love with the theatre in the Free German Youth , a left-wing group dedicated to rebuilding Germany for socialism , Ruth called Bloomsbury House to say ‘ she was very interested in dramatic work and hopes one day to take it up as a career ’ .
13 " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin .
14 After that I did not want my son to go to school but in the end some Bengali men in the area took it up with the Headmaster and since then there has been no trouble .
15 The brake is simply a length of ¾ × 2½in oak tied under the sled , with a steel ‘ claw ’ , and elastic shock cord to hold it up off the ground .
16 Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired .
17 An architectural Gone With The Wind with Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara hamming it up across the Grand Canal .
18 When a good nome dies , NASA takes it up into the sky and it becomes a star . ’
19 The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club .
20 Wexford held it up in the bright shaft of sunlight .
21 Mikael Martinsson wrapped it up with a header in the second half .
22 Kirov held it up to the light , studying it .
23 Keep your foot flexed and start slowly circling your right leg , at the same time bringing it up in the air .
24 It was often her task to carry it up to the little sitting-room , followed by Mary from the village , who came in as a daily maid , bearing a silver jug of hot water and matches to light all the lamps .
25 ‘ Forget all this romantic stuff about tossing it up , batsmen careering down the pitch to slog it up in the air , and even slipping in the occasional chinaman .
26 I have n't had time to get it up on the machine to change again quickly but I 've had a quick look at the situation with regard to the five per cent increase .
27 John summed it up as the super sixties , sobering seventies and ebb and flow of the eighties .
28 Now might be the time to follow it up with a few troop directions in fluent French .
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