Example sentences of "it up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pair had star quality written all over their faces as they hammed it up at a Buddy Holly tribute . |
| 2 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 3 | And I 'd thought to follow it up with a gourmet meal somewhere . |
| 4 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 5 | I sliced it up with a radiologist friend . |
| 6 | Press response If there does not seem to be any response to your press release , do not be afraid to follow it up with a telephone call . |
| 7 | She invited him to cover it up with a paper bag but he snapped the band round the back of his head and ran off into the street , an elephant ramping above the collar of his jersey , his new trunk bobbing . |
| 8 | One brave man grabbed a Lewis gun and , to save time , set it up on a rubbish bin rather than the tripod and fired away . |
| 9 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 11 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 12 | ‘ We set it up as a pilot programme to answer the call for more training in the field . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To celebrate , Sun Microsystems staff moved all the furniture out of his office , fixed it up like a Burger King stand , poured Scott into a Burger King uniform and had him handing out his favourite food . |
| 15 | It was a full fifteen feet and the offshore wind was holding it up like a crystal tower . |
| 16 | I picked it up from a golfing friend of mine for £25 back in the early Sixties . |
| 17 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |