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Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it up [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	You 've been encouraging it up to now , on a few occasions up to now .
2	I am living it up with Survage at the Coq d'Or .
3	While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’
4	We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’
5	No UK broadcast date has been fixed , but Sky are picking it up for autumn. , In the meantime , Bart is appearing in bootlegged form on American dance flyers and T-shirts everywhere .
6	so that the client can see that you 're keeping it up to date .
7	You 're cutting it up into bits .
8	Erm , and if we actually get the rest of the business , we keep the motor pre premium down , at ten per cent increase , if we do n't we 're jacking it up by forty per cent .
9	I 've been bottling it up inside me far too long .
10	We also asked if we could get the same consultation period because they are breaking it up at the four sites and some sites will get thirty days ' notice others will get the ninety days .
11	No no , so everybody should be given it up till then to pay anyway should n't they ?
12	I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date .
13	I am still very shaken and will be taking it up with the American authorities . ’
14	I have informally intimated to British Gas that we 'll be taking it up with them , not as a mere procedural matter through the joint secretary 's machinery , but as a negotiating matter , with the negotiating committee .
15	I will be backing it up with information from Teletext and Videotext in the United States by J. Tydeman et al , who include detailed information relating to current technology and future development of such systems .
16	When you are driving a racing car and you are taking it up to the limit , you can be nice , you can be charming , but somewhere there are undercurrents going for you that make you a pretty aggressive individual . ’
17	Me having tied up the whole of this campaign while you 've been whooping it up in Valencia — ? ’
18	Some buyers prefer the grease to be left lying thickly on the grain and the flesh of the leather and t so that it will gradually be absorbed and also they can then brush it up when they have got the goods , when they are making it up in their workshops .
19	You were holding it up to the window . ’
20	You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit
21	But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further .
22	They mentioned that you and Anna walked a hundred miles and that you were following it up with a heavy date .
23	If making it more fun is bringing it up to date then I 'm all in favour
24	So it 's building it up in stages .
25	Whether you I mean a the problem with that is keeping it up to date on
26	Well er if it 's a messy one , the first thing to do with it , is to split it up into little bits .
27	It 's no good looking for a man 's body round here if the owner 's living it up in Costa Rica .
28	Well I do n't know what time she 's picking it up at actually .
29	He is dressing it up as a concession , but , without amendment ( a ) , if there is a Conservative Government post election — I do not think that will happen , but we should explore the fantasies in case there is — the Secretary of State could decide not to set up a further education council in Scotland .
30	‘ If you have pictures whose past is confused , or questioned , or whose title and ownership are a matter of dispute , the one way to settle this is to put it up for auction and see what happens .