Example sentences of "and [verb] it up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 2 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 3 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 4 | Er well Tony 's going to deliver it and pick it up on the Monday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You know how you poke your nose against wire netting and push it up against an apple tree , but you still ca n't bite the bark because of the wire . |
| 7 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 8 | Someone had seen the open door , and fastened it up in a fit of misplaced zeal . |
| 9 | In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone . |
| 10 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 13 | Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year . |
| 14 | Then the Sheikha took her needle and drove it up through the middle of the quarter-inch nub , anchoring the fabric . |
| 15 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 16 | It 's called the N tuple method is because the first thing we do is to take that image and break it up into a set of tuples each of N in size . |
| 17 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 18 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 19 | Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time . |
| 20 | She went straight to her jug of water and lifted it up by the handle and peered inside . |
| 21 | What 's the point of teaching something if you can go and look it up in a book ? |
| 22 | She took the paper napkin from her lap and crunched it up into a tight ball , dropping it on to her plate . |
| 23 | Go right round a f these the field and cut your first swathe out and tie it up with a a load of the straw that you 'd cut and bind it up , bundle it up and shove that in the hedge bottom . |
| 24 | What if he had n't left yet — she could ring him and tell him she 'd chickened out , and he could flap his wings and tease her but at least she would n't have to — oh , hell , here he is , she thought , and watched as the huge bike rolled to a halt and he switched off the engine and hauled it up on the stand . |
| 25 | Holly spoke the language , so he 'd better jump on an Aeroflot and get over there and chase it up with the Ministry . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is believed that one of them moved the regulator and opened it up with the result that the train was soon out of control . |
| 28 | I can show you hawthorn , beech , oak , ash , elderberry and sycamore ; after that I have to take a leaf home and look it up in a book . |
| 29 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 30 | Smoothly , he worked the action of the Winchester , and swung it up towards the centre of the windscreen . |