Example sentences of "[verb] up [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazzer 's head was wrenched up until it crashed into the back of the seat . |
| 2 | Bookings of the ten-year package , fixed at 8.99 per cent for those borrowing up to 90 per cent , have been steady since its launch and have picked up since it featured in Money Mail recently . |
| 3 | It rained in the sky , in long streaky sheets , but the rain dried up before it reached the ground . |
| 4 | On the fault-tolerance front IBM says that Mode 3 substantially cuts the delay between the one machine failing and the other one picking up where it left off ; by the company 's own estimation the switch can take from anywhere between a long 30 seconds to a horribly long five minutes in modes 1 and 2 . |
| 5 | They 're using all this technology now to get the same sounds we used to get by turning up until it distorted . |
| 6 | He had chosen this world , Minginish , out of all the others he could have thought up because it had seemed good to him . |
| 7 | Successfully , for the whirlybird changed direction , heading straight for them , and Travis backed off , returning to the hut in time to shield her from the cloud of sand the machine whipped up as it landed . |
| 8 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 9 | Now , at the age of fifty-odd , the name was pathetically incongruous , calling up as it did someone fresh , compact and sparkling , with an air of crisp , but old-world domesticity . |
| 10 | Mopped up when it mattered and linked effectively with wide men . |
| 11 | She saw that Talvi 's frizzled up as it met Rosa 's , like a brand which is doused , and she also saw that Rosa did not notice , but went on as if a bubbling sulphurous spring rose inside her . |
| 12 | The plane touched down , bounced up again , slewed sideways and skidded along the runway , breaking up as it did so ; the port wing broke off and the rest of the plane turned over on top of it . |
| 13 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 14 | After a flat opening beers perked up when it became known that August beer production was up 8 per cent and the year 's output had edged 0.6 per cent ahead of last year 's corresponding performance . |
| 15 | The dog 's tail speeded up till it seemed to thump out a quick cloud of dust from the rag rug . |
| 16 | The light speeded up as it got closer to you , but took ages to do the first part of the journey . |
| 17 | Nobody asked the Public Service official anything , and Yggdrasil would have spoken up if it had any strong objections . |
| 18 | It was an ever increasing thing that blew up because it got a little too big , but it did make David a star and he has dealt with it really well , and is a man who does wonderful work . |
| 19 | The fire was caused by an employee of the defendants negligently forgetting to extinguish a gas flame under a chip fryer before leaving the premises for the night , with the result that the oil in the chip fryer continued to heat up until it caught fire . |
| 20 | This simple , naive and incomprehensible blunder established Scotland 's reputation as the team most likely to screw up when it came to a big match preparation . |
| 21 | which , so that you got the stables shut up before it got dark at four o'clock , ai n't it |
| 22 | On 4 March the Belgian ship La Coubre — carrying weapons purchased by the Castro regime — was blown up as it entered Havana Bay by a bomb allegedly planted by the CIA . |