Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as independents Tony Carlin and William McCorriston , both formerly of the SDLP , counted their losses last night , the SDLP was celebrating victory in both the Northland Ward , where all five fielded candidates were elected , and on the Waterside , where it picked up an extra seat . |
| 2 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 3 | Although it weights up a little with speed , it still seems more concerned with the easy life than confidence-inspiring weight and feel . |
| 4 | The holes are formed by transferring one stitch to the next needle to the right or left , leaving the empty needle in working position so that it picks up a stitch on the following row . |
| 5 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Whether you see jumble as giving or refuse disposal , the fact is that it makes up a significant part of the income of small local organisations . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Watch out for them when you buy it and it opens up a whole world of experimenting . |
| 10 | Apparently they have had people calling in saying , ‘ please could I speak to Sue ’ , and that could be anybody , and then the switchboard has to go through the rigmarole of saying , ‘ what 's it all about , do you know where the person works , can you give me a bit more information ’ , and it takes up a lot more of their time , so please , if you 're leaving a message for somebody to call you back , leave your full name and your extension number . |
| 11 | However erm one thing I think that 's got to be borne in mind and it picks up a point that erm Leeds have made , is that they 're looking towards trendy migration , they say . |
| 12 | Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking . |
| 13 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 14 | It was Gre he was out at the Caithes and it blew up a a gale a Westerly gale and blew him across to Norway you see . |
| 15 | Campaigning is a demanding business and it swallows up a lot of time without guaranteeing success , said group secretary George Knowles . |
| 16 | Of course , by that evening I could n't think of anything else and it set up a pattern of repetition which I followed once I went back to London . |
| 17 | Well see if it comes up a bit . |
| 18 | If it laps up a little of this , the ethylene glycol may cause irreversible kidney damage . |
| 19 | It is n't a large place , but it takes up a lot of your time . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But it set up a pattern of eating which would take Odette years to break . |
| 22 | It has only two options for collecting repayments of loans worth up to £460 a year — an income tax surcharge , or increased national insurance contributions — unless it sets up an even more costly mechanism . |
| 23 | This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere . |
| 24 | ‘ The reason we did a video for ‘ Dipping ’ was because it conjured up a lot of images . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | Their colonization of Brazil was even more momentous since it opened up a source which during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led the world in the production of gold . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | " Early " is deictic here , but only inasmuch as it sets up an opposition to a notional " late " . |
| 29 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |