Example sentences of "[vb past] it up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 2 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
| 3 | Mary Rose took off her mink and handed it to a large redheaded girl , who looked at it and stroked the silky fur before she hung it up on the back door among the muddy anoraks . |
| 4 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 7 | John summed it up as the super sixties , sobering seventies and ebb and flow of the eighties . |
| 8 | Then they backed it up to the front door and they all charged inside . ’ |
| 9 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
| 10 | She picked it up at the third ring . |
| 11 | Perhaps he just picked it up in the right place . |
| 12 | Wexford held it up in the bright shaft of sunlight . |