Example sentences of "it [verb] up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was really pleased to get so much in the way of useful comment and feedback — a lot of it bringing up incidental considerations that we clearly have n't yet given enough thought to . |
| 2 | With only one opponent behind me , showing A-2-4-5 and declining to change , I knew I had it sewn up both ways . |
| 3 | It opened up orchestrational possibilities for a small group that did n't exist before . |
| 4 | Although the case collapsed and Docherty admitted telling ‘ a pack of lies ’ in court , it opened up damaging wounds within Manchester United , and created a climate of fear and loathing among leading players that stretches to the present day . |
| 5 | It conjures up vague images of past imperialistic glories which are hardly relevant . |
| 6 | The method used by the original Canon laser engine is called ‘ write black ’ because it charges up those areas of the drum that are going to become black when printed . |
| 7 | In this way the story is just like one of Poe 's : it calls up buried fears . |
| 8 | I keep it locked up these days . ’ |
| 9 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 10 | It opens up new ways of co-operating in Europe . |
| 11 | Most importantly , it opens up new ways of co-operation with our European partners , not just the way of straight-through Community competence and the European court of Justice . |
| 12 | Firstly it is good for our health since it strengthens the heart , secondly it burns up extra calories and helps to increase our metabolic rate , and thirdly it improves the contours of our body . |
| 13 | The image sometimes shows incomplete leaves , base and tip present with a segment missing , or it picks up isolated points which do not correspond to subject material . |
| 14 | I know it went up two steps . |
| 15 | This vast , and as yet unconfronted burden of loan capital is the single biggest factor in the present world debt crisis , since it chewed up vast quantities of money , raising interest rates , and keeping them high . |
| 16 | It gobbles up 17 acres of land and property in my constituency and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras ( Mr. Dobson ) to create a low-level box that will include platforms and railway lines serving the channel tunnel traffic , Thameslink and other commuter traffic . |
| 17 | When added to the usual treatments for this condition it cleared up persistent ulcers in 40 out of 60 cases . |
| 18 | It rounds up any years that are left over . |
| 19 | Dostoevsky 's notebook word ‘ tone ’ amounts to more than dust and mortar and summer smells ; it catches up human beings and entangles them with the city . |
| 20 | Parker said the group intends to step up this activity until sales levels justify it setting up local operations . |
| 21 | Challenging the fast-flowing stream , a black and white dipper ‘ swam ’ against the current , half-submerged as it snapped up aquatic delicacies . |
| 22 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
| 23 | everybody on that call , instead of sixteen channels on a card and there 's five people using it , it comes up five channels in use and blocks out number eleven so that nobody else can use it |
| 24 | oh ca n't get it , and that 's what we do and it comes up three channels you can use and somebody else cleared out two channels are used and if them channel |
| 25 | It set up complex criteria . |