Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |
| 2 | really , your pipes should be levels , should go I drape my pipe over it if I do it , or hang it up at the back . |
| 3 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 4 | Someone who 's forever pushing her hair out of her eyes , or stuffing it up in a clip on top of her head simply looks harassed . |
| 5 | The other alternatives were to shoot the plane down before it landed or blow it up on the ground at Teheran airport when all the Imam 's followers had come forward to welcome him . |
| 6 | Highlighting Labour 's key theme of the NHS , he said voters faced a stark choice : to build up the health service under Labour or to break it up under the Conservatives . |
| 7 | And who is that whooping it up at the bar with a glass in his hand ? |
| 8 | Naturally we will exercise discretion , but we wish to make the sharing of information normal , rather than leaving it up to the client to make the case for access . |
| 9 | NORTH Sea oil costs could be reduced by a novel plan to build and test subsea production equipment at onshore sites rather than hooking it up on the seabed . |
| 10 | With ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ he created another identity for himself ( ‘ Camille ’ ) by subjecting his vocal to studio wizardry that tweaked it up to an androgynous 55 rpm . |
| 11 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 12 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 13 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 14 | Er well Tony 's going to deliver it and pick it up on the Monday . |
| 15 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |
| 16 | Cos got it up on the side and he had n't showed her and he was just pressing oh what 's that |
| 17 | You know how you poke your nose against wire netting and push it up against an apple tree , but you still ca n't bite the bark because of the wire . |
| 18 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 19 | Someone had seen the open door , and fastened it up in a fit of misplaced zeal . |
| 20 | In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone . |
| 21 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 22 | Returning thoughtfully to his own back bedroom , he tuned one of his receivers to the frequency he had read off the antenna and hooked it up to a tape machine . |
| 23 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then the Sheikha took her needle and drove it up through the middle of the quarter-inch nub , anchoring the fabric . |
| 26 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 27 | It 's called the N tuple method is because the first thing we do is to take that image and break it up into a set of tuples each of N in size . |
| 28 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 29 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 30 | Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time . |