Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 2 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 3 | We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days . |
| 4 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
| 5 | I am still very shaken and will be taking it up with the American authorities . ’ |
| 6 | When you are driving a racing car and you are taking it up to the limit , you can be nice , you can be charming , but somewhere there are undercurrents going for you that make you a pretty aggressive individual . ’ |
| 7 | You were holding it up to the window . ’ |
| 8 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 9 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 10 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 11 | Dad paid over the four shillings and while he was entering it up in the book said , ‘ Mr Priest , I was wondering if yer could give me permission to build a small wooden shed facing the house ? ’ |
| 12 | He had made his right hand into a fist and was jabbing it up at the sky , feinting in the direction of the falling missile . |