Example sentences of "[verb] it up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it was dry , Louise styled Kukkay 's hair by twisting it up at the back to create fullness on top while still leaving it curly and ‘ free ’ . |
| 2 | Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either . |
| 3 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different . |
| 6 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 7 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 8 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 9 | In this way you can hook the oedematous scrotum and winch it up with the anaesthetised patient prone . |
| 10 | You 're supposed to curl it up in a , in a erm in a brush when you blow dry it you know . |
| 11 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 12 | I noticed that she was very modest in front of me , going through mild contortions putting on her undies beneath her dressing-gown , and once when it fell off , revealing her shabbily but quite decently clad in a mauve rayon slip , she snatched it up with a quick " Sorry dear " . |
| 13 | Someone had seen the open door , and fastened it up in a fit of misplaced zeal . |
| 14 | Naturally , I can resist anything but flattery and lapped it up like a hungry cat does milk . |
| 15 | You all know what Strats sound like and what 5-position selectors do , but to get an overall picture of this guitar I lined it up against a regular office hack ( a Tokai hybrid with an old ‘ 58 Fender neck and Alnico Pro II 's in the middle and bridge positions ) and can report that the SRV came out well . |
| 16 | Michael Green , its creator , built it up from a small photo-processing company . |
| 17 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 18 | So have to hide it up in the wardrobe . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 21 | You 've looked it up in the Titmarsh have you ? |
| 22 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 23 | If you 've got an unknown author there is no way somebody is going to buy that book unless they have picked it up off the shelf . |
| 24 | I think we must have both picked it up during a visit to some relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 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 | If they thought it was that bad they would of picked it up on the M O T would n't they ? |
| 27 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 28 | do n't worry , it 's , it 's in the grass and she 's just picked it up in the heat wave . |
| 29 | Ward 's payment was agreed with Saunders ‘ a man who had huge authority in that company because he had picked it up by the scruff of the neck and transformed it . ’ |
| 30 | Other lenders may advance 95 per cent of the purchase price and then top it up with a five per cent loan from an insurance company . |