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

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31 They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date .
32 Lee Sharpe 's fourth goal in three games opened the way after seven minutes , Cantona rapped in a 45th minute penalty and Steve Bruce wrapped it up with an 88th minute header .
33 I am still very shaken and will be taking it up with the American authorities . ’
34 Lay a piece of masking tape at the centre point of the hearth , then line it up with the plumb bob
35 thing you could pass on to the police and they could take it up with the local council .
36 Let's see , from the top and grossing it up on a worldwide basis , it 's roughly fifty for the visor , two hundred for shirts and sweaters , just under fifty for the golf gloves , and a hundred for the trousers . ’
37 I then produce a 5 by 4 or a 10 by 8 colour transparency and set it up on a light table .
38 He lines it up on the shiny sideboard .
39 Stick it up on the top shelf then .
40 He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach .
41 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 .
42 I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans .
43 Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective .
44 A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing .
45 He was saving it up for a rainy day .
46 We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’
47 They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt .
48 Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site , but dig it up for the valuable peat underneath .
49 And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world .
50 If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip , and Montgomery would not be amused .
51 By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves .
52 Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution .
53 Now move to the next point and join it up to every other point and so on until your pattern is complete .
54 The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size .
55 Although it was small and seemed damp , we were told work would soon be done to bring it up to an acceptable level . ’
56 On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’
57 I could have done with a little more natural variation in the sound , but seeing that all Kirk is probably going to do with it is leave it on the neck pickup , knock all the middle off at the amp and turn it up to an excruciating volume , it does n't have to be the most variable guitar in the world .
58 We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation .
59 But if your item weighs a half a kilo , we 'll round it up to the first kilo so that 's any valid for fifteen pounds .
60 They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea .
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