Example sentences of "[pers pn] up into [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Dry the leaves first , and break them up into small pieces .
2 Er sanctifying grace natural grace , you know now they 're it 's all , it 's all help from God but clever thinkers have decided to split them up into various things , just like the way I mean for example er there 's so many different things made from oil , you know er like erm turpentine er petrol , diesel .
3 Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure .
4 So you have got ta cut them up into little bits ?
5 Feeling hurt and bewildered , she looked away , then squealed in alarm as he swung her up into strong arms .
6 So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ?
7 Thinking is a capacity to refer at will , whose nature is made more mysterious if we try to chop it up into mental episodes with particular epistemic content or causal power .
8 A large spreadsheet can be made much easier to work with by breaking it up into logical pieces on several pages of a notebook .
9 He decided to destroy his brother 's body permanently and therefore cut it up into fourteen pieces , which he distributed far and wide throughout Egypt .
10 Rather than analysing society in terms of one kind of component , Althusser claims that Marx breaks it up into related units called , in Althusserean parlance , ‘ practices ’ .
11 Well er if it 's a messy one , the first thing to do with it , is to split it up into little bits .
12 Oh no , it 's like , it 's like with chocolate as well , I cut it up into little pieces , because I ca n't eat it all at once .
13 Her gown had a train which brushed the floor , and she waited while the woman following her looped it up into neat folds and attached them to the fastening at her wrist .
14 And what we 've got N here we 've selected as three and so we 've broken it up into three tuples because another rule in the method even though it can be broken is that each pixel can only go into one tuple .
15 Now let's say let's say your mum came in and she said how many for this pizza and we said oh just the three of us and she cut it cut it up into three pieces three pieces all the same size .
16 Cork tiles are made by compressing the bark of the cork tree into a block , and then slicing it up into thin layers .
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