Example sentences of "it up as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had given it up as lost , ’ said Mr Tyson , who lives in South Ruislip , Middlesex . |
| 2 | You can leave the fabric in place almost until you are ready to gather your crops as it is so light the plants just push it up as they grow . |
| 3 | You make it up as you go along . |
| 4 | Your letter arrived early last week — Tuesday — and I picked it up as I was on my way out of the guest house where I 'm staying at the moment . |
| 5 | This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) . |
| 6 | Now break it up as it is cut along the dotted lines and the object is to see how long it takes for it to be reassembled . |
| 7 | Start with at least a 60cm/24″ tank , preferably larger , and set it up as for a marine system . |
| 8 | He offered to tutor the girl , but after trying to teach her for a while , gave it up as he considered she was unable to focus on what she was being taught . |
| 9 | Better watch TV HELL which probably charts the history of bad TV decently but doubtless the BBC will bollocks it up as they always do . |
| 10 | ( I 've done dozens of lectures now , in front of all sorts of people , and I always make it up as I go along , although I suppose I must have a rough idea about what I 'm going to say . ) |
| 11 | There was a Mitchell at Hickham during the attack , so why dress it up as something that did n't exist ? |
| 12 | In his April review AB , while remaining loyal to the Walter and Klemperer versions , summed it up as ‘ the most compelling and most spontaneous of performances recorded in the past few years , and I shall want it by my for the sheer beauty of the sound , often in that respect surpassing any other version ’ . |
| 13 | One user summed it up as follows : |
| 14 | c ) Carefully draw your own rectangle , about the same size and divide it up as shown above . |
| 15 | She would make it up as she went along — like a story told to a child at bedtime ; like a clever lie that relies as much on the truth as on deception . |
| 16 | Electronic publishing is n't like word processing , it 's not that easy to ‘ pick it up as you go along ’ — at least not if you want professional results . |
| 17 | I was making it up as I went along . |
| 18 | The band was tight , but everyone else had seemed to be making it up as they went along . |
| 19 | An officer who had worked on the social side for twenty years summed it up as " the most brilliant lecture on our social services I 'd ever heard in my life " . |
| 20 | as if on cue , the car-phone gave a discreet purr to punctuate Tom 's passionate sentence , and he snatched it up as he braked at traffic-lights which had just turned red . |
| 21 | She was aware that she was making it up as she went along but she certainly did n't want to repeat what Richie had actually said . |
| 22 | I am quite sure that British Steel will have considered that and will weigh it up as well as any other possible developments . |
| 23 | That I 've put down , erm , anybody added it up as we 've gone along ? |
| 24 | Yes , and I 've no doubt that our representative on the A C C will take it up as well again . |
| 25 | It is best to prepare the system before starting to draft , rather than making it up as sub-divisions arise during the drafting . |
| 26 | Just making it up as we went along . |
| 27 | He was a taxi driver in Newton Aycliffe for two years but gave it up as it was ‘ soul-destroying ’ . |
| 28 | She just makes it up as she goes along . |
| 29 | No sorry I 've deci , I said I 'd make it up as I went along ! |
| 30 | No , no , but yeah it was , it was awful paper , but I mean you 'd got it up as long as you do n't look too closely , it 's got it 's own , some of have |