Example sentences of "it 's [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Directly in front of the house beyond a huge weeping beech tree so big it 's propped up with telegraph poles in concrete . |
| 2 | But , you know , I mean , if the Uni goes to ten thousand in what what is it , it 's getting up for about ninety five , ninety six ? |
| 3 | It 's building up to critical . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 5 | A rainbow seems like a miracle — it appears out of no-where , it forms a perfect arc — it 's made up of beautiful colours , always the same ones in just the same order — and it always mysteriously disappears . |
| 6 | A whole orange = 100% ( that is , it 's made up of 100 parts ) A whole orange cut into two equal parts becomes two lots of 50 parts . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's made up of anarchists in part and in part middle-class softies . |
| 8 | End date it 's picking up off the same list . |
| 9 | It 's picking up onto the same list is it ? |
| 10 | It 's rainin' up in the mountains accordin' to that nice immigration laddie . |
| 11 | It 's shaping up to be an exciting climax to the group and I know Billy Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note . ’ |
| 12 | The caravanning life is n't all it 's painted up to be . |
| 13 | Once it 's locked up inside a glass case , surely it 's safe ; no one can expect me to do anything about it then . |
| 14 | It 's blown up into some kind of news story , so I better check the bulletins . |
| 15 | Now it 's blown up into a dispute between the two , with each side blaming the other for the lack of progress . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's catching up on me . ’ |
| 17 | He thinks disco 's reputation as tacky is unfair : ‘ Disco 's got a more sophisticated approach to it , with the way it 's built up in layers . |
| 18 | If you 're buying a cut tree , you 'll be paying obviously from where it 's cut up to the bottom branch , or if it 's a rooted tree you 'll be paying from ground level up to the bottom branch again . |
| 19 | When the second part of the strap is cut it 's matched up with the main piece for colour . |
| 20 | ‘ But it is the sack , Sir , even though it 's dressed up in fine words . ’ |
| 21 | Well it 's speeding up to there accelerating and it 's |
| 22 | All this business , it 's bound up with my bossy attitude to life . |
| 23 | It 's lined up with that lamp over there on the other wall , ’ said Dick . |
| 24 | It 's to warm up for the weekend it said . |
| 25 | It 's a very cosy set-up , as you admitted last night , but I do n't suppose she knows what it 's leading up to , if Jones has conveniently forgotten to mention the exact nature of your past relationship . ’ |
| 26 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 27 | He found The Rake 's Progress ‘ perspicacious , witty in spite of its stark drama , and thorough as regards research into the period ’ , but he added that ‘ I 'm afraid it 's not half what it 's cracked up to be . ’ |
| 28 | The movie also has a strong message : that wealth is n't all it 's cracked up to be . |
| 29 | Each room has a colour TV — ideal for checking out if Italian football is as good as it 's cracked up to be . |
| 30 | That 's because the Premier League is not what it 's cracked up to be . |