Example sentences of "and [verb] it up [prep] the " 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 Er well Tony 's going to deliver it and pick it up on the Monday .
4 After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light .
5 In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone .
6 They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea .
7 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 .
8 Then the Sheikha took her needle and drove it up through the middle of the quarter-inch nub , anchoring the fabric .
9 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 .
10 Now we could use plasterboard at a fraction of the price and put it up in the fraction of the time .
11 She went straight to her jug of water and lifted it up by the handle and peered inside .
12 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 .
13 Holly spoke the language , so he 'd better jump on an Aeroflot and get over there and chase it up with the Ministry .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Smoothly , he worked the action of the Winchester , and swung it up towards the centre of the windscreen .
18 David designed the first poster for our first Sunday evening and stuck it up outside the pub .
19 Taking the bag and holding it up towards the window , Bodie peered at the two slugs .
20 It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord .
21 He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach .
22 ‘ You took the Wheel to the site and set it up on the ramp ; was it left unattended at any time ? ’
23 George slipped off his Burberry and hung it up in the hall cupboard .
24 In making up , sew down the strip at the lower edge of the cable at the back and thread it up through the cable twist to sew it in at the top .
25 Tie a cord to each bottom ring and thread it up through the rings on each tape .
26 The best approach to this difficult joint is to make an initial shallow cut in the end of the arm and feed it up in the correct position to the back .
27 He found a huge , high-backed oak chair and pulled it up beside the fire .
28 Then , without warning , she grabbed hard and pulled it up into the air so that everyone could see what she was doing .
29 Duncan stood back , against the wall , as Myeloski picked up one of the wooden chairs and pulled it up to the cot .
30 Harvey dropped his piroshky into the soup and broke it up with the spoon .
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