Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the Edinburgh employers ( perhaps inadvertently ) revealed that " either very experienced girls or experienced men make it up into pages or make it up into sheets " . |
| 2 | or bulking it up with scouring powder |
| 3 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |
| 4 | really , your pipes should be levels , should go I drape my pipe over it if I do it , or hang it up at the back . |
| 5 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 6 | Someone who 's forever pushing her hair out of her eyes , or stuffing it up in a clip on top of her head simply looks harassed . |
| 7 | The other alternatives were to shoot the plane down before it landed or blow it up on the ground at Teheran airport when all the Imam 's followers had come forward to welcome him . |
| 8 | Highlighting Labour 's key theme of the NHS , he said voters faced a stark choice : to build up the health service under Labour or to break it up under the Conservatives . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ If a player flicks up the ball and tries to head it to his goalkeeper , or flicks it up for someone else to knock back , he 'll be booked for ungentlemanly conduct . ’ |
| 10 | But unless I talked out the issue with others , or wrote it up in my diary , it may be far from clear even to myself whether or not I did verbally formulate the alternatives . |
| 11 | But he was a proper But it was in his back yard , he was killing it and hanging it up in the window there . |
| 12 | This is rather different from the Western dialectic habit in which one party will put forward his idea and back it up with supporting information . |
| 13 | I 'll come up tomorrow afternoon and make it up to you . ’ |
| 14 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 15 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 16 | I told Debbie about the house because they 'd quarrelled , she and her father , and I was afraid that if she did n't try and make it up with him he would change his mind . |
| 17 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 18 | We knew that they were testing them , and checking it over and bringing it up to standard , but we did n't know anything about it other than that ! |
| 19 | Er well Tony 's going to deliver it and pick it up on the Monday . |
| 20 | Watch how they move right up to a certain morsel and pick it up with their lips , or how they move no closer than several inches to another and then draw it to the edge of their lips with a mighty suck . |
| 21 | I 'll come down on that day and pick it up from you at 2pm . |
| 22 | He shouldered the mattress and carried it back to Hut 2 , and slung it up onto his bunk , and threw the pillow and blanket after it . |
| 23 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |
| 24 | they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past . |
| 25 | Please ensure that you check your list and bring it up to date now and return to the Office . |
| 26 | Basically the system is our cover note book control , er , we issue cover note books to agents and it 's up to us to make sure that they 're all issued in sequence , as their legal documents etc , and a minute a gap comes up we have to chase them etc , it 's run by erm , people quite low units and they scared of a job and tend to put it off as lose , and I want to visit and try and influence them so I can give them some help and to change it and bring it up to date , because it 's er . |
| 27 | Would n't he go and find that child and bring it up as his own ? |
| 28 | Clutching his sleeve , she said : ‘ Nahum , we could adopt a child and bring it up as if it were our own . ’ |
| 29 | A MOTHER lay dying on the floor of her home for a week while her 12-year-old son ignored her and lived it up with his pals , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 30 | He says of Mr Kinnock 's call : ‘ I think it is a huge tribute to those of us who have spoken for the Conservative Party on industrial matters , and have had some personal experience in creating a small business and building it up to some size . |