Example sentences of "it be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bosnia is in worse condition now than had it been split up last year . |
| 2 | Wo n't it be pulling up some of that sludge through the chiller and if we do n't |
| 3 | ‘ God , ca n't a man say anything in his own house without it being taken up wrong ? ’ and the quarrel circled about the two positions until he reached and took her in his arms . |
| 4 | It 's just we got the board and it 's taking up all the room in the playroom and yet you 're not playing with it . |
| 5 | It 's picking up all that you say you know . |
| 6 | Erm and now very quickly again because , it 's filling up all gaps between this bottom row and the top row of the spreadsheet . |
| 7 | That 's how much memory you had , to start with , three hundred and twenty thousand bytes and that 's how much you 've got left , two hundred and eight thousand bytes i if you 've got a spreadsheet in memory so it 's using up some of the memory . |
| 8 | No , it 's soaking up all the bread crumbs . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's slit up each side , ’ she said showing an expanse of thigh . |
| 10 | It 's blowing up this rain from the south . |
| 11 | It 's growing up nice . |
| 12 | Well it 's going up two P on Monday . |
| 13 | It 's thought up three hundred priests could follow suit . |
| 14 | In physics terms it is using up some of its energy of motion ( its kinetic energy , as we say ) in doing work against gravity in climbing the hump . |
| 15 | I do keep an eye on my colour changer to make sure that it is picking up each colour as it should and I am also very careful to check that I have no ‘ lazy ’ or less than perfect needles as picking up dropped stitches is not a pleasant job . |
| 16 | Bethpage , New York-based Grumman Corp may be looking for computer-related acquisitions , but in the meantime , it is to use up some of its cash pile by spending up to $100m buying in its own shares . |
| 17 | The pinder , whose job it was to round up stray animals and keep them in the pinfold , to be released on payment of a fine , was also known as the axeman . |
| 18 | The Department of Trade and Industry announced that it was setting up working groups to examine the scope for changing some of the most complex areas of company law . |
| 19 | It was blown up last year . |
| 20 | In fact Well there was Craighead was it was built up high on the hill side . |
| 21 | And it was brought up last time that erm , in the Potter Street area , not enough was being done to occupy the minds of the |
| 22 | It was clocking up 10 times more assembly line rejects . |
| 23 | He added that at CCCs fourth quarter closing , it was signing up new licensees at a 30% higher rate than anticipated . |
| 24 | It was set up that way , certainly , but was it set up by him ? ’ |
| 25 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 26 | It was set up five years ago as a new shop to combine the Art Bookshop and the Poster Gallery , which prior to that had been part of the Paperback Bookshop . |
| 27 | One of several , it was set up 15 years ago and , using immunotherapy , has an 81 per cent success rate with women who 've had multiple miscarriages . |
| 28 | Our control should be extended to the country and a tripartite commission exists to reform the Labour Code , but it was set up three years ago , and so far there have n't been any results . |
| 29 | He was appointed director of the council when it was set up last year . |
| 30 | It was set up last year at the behest of the Labour leader , John Smith , but has an independent life under Sir Gordon Borrie , former director-general of the Office of Fair Trading . |