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

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1 It could be that the cordless power-tool is turning a full circle , representing the original hand-tools without the sweat ; you simply pick it up off the bench and use it , or pack it away in your toolbag and take it to wherever the task has to be done , and do it .
2 Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves .
3 Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves .
4 you bring it up at the update and get some feedback from that
5 I could n't stick it up at the back or I 'd look aged , haggard , forty years old .
6 Try cutting it out altogether for a while , or at least giving it up during the week and reducing your weekend consumption .
7 ‘ They opened it up during the war but the seams were too deep .
8 When using this fin elastic , thread it up through the feeder as usual , but do not take it through the tape-up spring ( the antennae at the end of the tension wire ) .
9 If a grip could be got on the parcel , maybe she could thread it up between the wood and through ?
10 I rolled it up into a ball and pushed the shawl and lipstick inside the bundle , then I went to put it on Sally 's step .
11 The expression on his face had grown hard and grim as he 'd scanned the paper in his hands , before angrily crunching it up into a ball and hurling it into a nearby waste-paper basket .
12 and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you
13 When a good nome dies , NASA takes it up into the sky and it becomes a star . ’
14 I just sat there staring at the bag as it unscrewed itself and the wind took it and blew it up into the air and away .
15 And er and then I 'd load it up into the tubs and tram it out into the gate .
16 But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start .
17 The board also intends to carry out a survey into how the procedures are understood , and follow it up with a training and familiarisation programme .
18 An essential piece of equipment is a long spirit level which you use to ensure that your frame is horizontal — do not rely on lining it up with the floor or ceiling of the room .
19 After that I did not want my son to go to school but in the end some Bengali men in the area took it up with the Headmaster and since then there has been no trouble .
20 I bought a steak and kidney pie , heated it up with the peas and some potatoes and put a couple of spoonfuls of peas on my plate to kid him I 'd had some .
21 I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court .
22 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 .
23 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 )
24 It is easier to bring off if you have an assistant to hold the camcorder , otherwise , you have to set it up on a tripod or some other suitable support and switch it on with a remote control or time-delay .
25 Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind
26 Put it up on the wall and have a fucking jerk off .
27 I 'm not the best to s pick it up on the stitches and
28 He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action .
29 Cos got it up on the side and he had n't showed her and he was just pressing oh what 's that
30 ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’
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