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

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1 The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon .
2 In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone .
3 Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind .
4 John summed it up as the super sixties , sobering seventies and ebb and flow of the eighties .
5 Then , in a fit of excess , he ratcheted it up to a full 2 million job losses .
6 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 .
7 Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either .
8 You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing !
9 Michael Green , its creator , built it up from a small photo-processing company .
10 As Ice Cube Summed it up in a simple four-word news release : ‘ No justice … no peace ’ .
11 They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling .
12 From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s .
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