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

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1 Suppose I bring it up on a tray in about half an hour .
2 He goes I pick it up in a bag and chuck it out the window !
3 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 .
4 ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way .
5 If I 'm knitting Fair Isle , I line it up with the N1 cam because I also have to pass that .
6 I sliced it up with a radiologist friend .
7 So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying .
8 I rolled it up into a ball and pushed the shawl and lipstick inside the bundle , then I went to put it on Sally 's step .
9 " Right below , I looked it up on the map .
10 I looked it up on the map as a matter of interest . ’
11 Cos I looked it up in the paper !
12 Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom .
13 When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally .
14 I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday .
15 I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian .
16 I step it up to the bar just so it looks like I 've got some goal in life .
17 That was when I wound it up on a carriageway .
18 I take it up to the training ground and the players love it .
19 ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago .
20 I picked it up off the Manchester lads in our regiment .
21 I picked it up off the floor , and it looked perfectly new . ’
22 I picked it up from a golfing friend of mine for £25 back in the early Sixties .
23 I picked it up in no time , and I 'm a dummy . ’
24 I picked it up after the election and modified it in the light of the amendments that we had tabled when we were in opposition .
25 ‘ Help me carry it up to the house . ’
26 First is the inadequate definition of gold and silver , which leaves it up to the jury empanelled by the coroner , to whom the objects have been handed over , to decide if they are treasure or not .
27 you bring it up at the update and get some feedback from that
28 Make sure you back it up with the exercises .
29 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 " .
30 in the bottom of the cup , it just when you hold the cup up to the light , the picture comes through , you know it 's , the shape and the colours come through when you hold it up to the light
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