Example sentences of "it [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Save any vegetable water and use it to whip up a healthy cocktail or as a basis for gravy . |
| 2 | Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking . |
| 3 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 4 | You let them play against one another and sometimes you transfer a player from one club to another , so that it builds up a mutual admiration society . |
| 5 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 6 | She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace . |
| 7 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 8 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 9 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 10 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 11 | Yellow is more stimulating , so use it to brighten up a cold room |
| 12 | Someone could have put it away or be using it to sweep up a broken wine glass . |
| 13 | Once this new mode of production began to replace the old , it threw up a new class of owners . |
| 14 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 15 | It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 17 | It conjures up the bad image about opiates on a general scale , y'know . |
| 18 | It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines . |
| 19 | For instance it clears up a tiresome controversy over the level at which natural selection acts . |
| 20 | Instead , it cooked up a market-sharing deal with Du Pont that was to last until 1944 , when it was the subject of a celebrated American antitrust suit . |
| 21 | Instead it takes up the double aspect , Januslike posture of any interpretation . |
| 22 | Such a widening of perspectives obviously leaves no place for the by now out-dated claim concerning the objective nature of linguistic analysis , but it opens up a whole range of stimulating opportunities for the exploration of the ways texts function in society . |
| 23 | Watch out for them when you buy it and it opens up a whole world of experimenting . |
| 24 | It lies below and beyond the distinctions between subject and object which are inbuilt in ordinary experience at the level of knowledge and action ; so it opens up a direct awareness of the God on whom our existence hangs as given in and with our deepest awareness of ourselves . |
| 25 | ‘ We are very pleased about this as it opens up the entire country music market for us . |
| 26 | This test factor is said to interpret the relationship between the two variables ; it opens up the black box to show how the effect occurs . |
| 27 | It worked up a fair frenzy over the Tory leadership contest , describing Herself 's terribly threatening opponent as , variously , a ‘ dotty baronet ’ ( November 29 ) ; ‘ the Bufton Tufton of the Tory back benches ’ ( November 30 ) ; and ‘ The fossil ’ ( December 1 ) . |
| 28 | In addition , it throws up a syntactic-semantic distinction which is important in its own right and which will make its presence felt in the other adjectival positions also . |
| 29 | Yesterday 's annual results showed that it kept up the good work in 1991 . |
| 30 | It cleaned up the European Car of the Year award for 1992 against some formidable competition , though only two out of the seven British judges gave it top ranking . |