Example sentences of "[vb pp] it up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus had called her a waif and Adam had immediately ridiculed this word , said it was a romantic novelist 's word , so they had looked it up in Hilbert 's Shorter Oxford Dictionary and found illuminating things . |
| 2 | Perhaps the man had picked it up in West Cameroun . |
| 3 | Yes you have n't done it up for years have you ? |
| 4 | I had pushed it up to £25,000 . |
| 5 | Our shuttering had been fabricated in the workshop , complete with risers reinforced with some 75 × 50mm timber , but we could have made it up on site . |
| 6 | With only five minutes remaining Claire McMahon could have wrapped it up for Pegasus when she gave herself room , but blasted the ball off the post . |
| 7 | Zeinab had set it up for Owen to meet her theatrical friends at their usual cafe and as she and Owen turned into the square , there they were , occupying their usual tables on the edge of the pavement . |
| 8 | So in 1980 IBM came back to Mr Gates , then 25 , who quickly bought a rudimentary operating system from another young company , renamed it DOS , and fixed it up for IBM . |
| 9 | There 's a lot of very good stuff here but he seems to have gathered it up in armfuls and just bundled it in anywhere . |
| 10 | Yes , and I 've broken it up into parts , I 'll be doing the same with Bernard and Tony , incidentally . |
| 11 | Oh I cried when Penny went I really did , I said you with a temper and that last day you know , we all got a bucket filled it up with ash trays , dog ends , bits of paper , oh I do n't know what was in it |
| 12 | It 's erm when you start a car , have you ever been in a car when someone 's started it up in gear and the car moves forward ? |
| 13 | I mean he would of put it up for sale knowing that you wanted to get somewhere between you , knowing that the house market is as it is |
| 14 | Within weeks , the Westminster Gazette ( 15 September 1898 ) had taken it up in order to ridicule the enemy forces in the Sudan campaign . |
| 15 | And no , I should n't worry about it as Fenella had cleared it up before Frank and Salome had got home . |
| 16 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |