Example sentences of "it up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think if I had n't bought it and done it up at enormous personal cost this cottage would still be standing ? ’ |
| 2 | I have often reflected that if the founders , Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst , had behaved like any other rural landowners , living it up through judicious stock-market investments , no one would have raised an eyebrow . |
| 3 | Jarvis has built it up through sheer hard work . |
| 4 | Thinking is a capacity to refer at will , whose nature is made more mysterious if we try to chop it up into mental episodes with particular epistemic content or causal power . |
| 5 | A large spreadsheet can be made much easier to work with by breaking it up into logical pieces on several pages of a notebook . |
| 6 | It 's probably full of abbreviations and emendations because you 've had to rush to get it all down , so take it home and write it up into recognisable dialogue . |
| 7 | Rather than analysing society in terms of one kind of component , Althusser claims that Marx breaks it up into related units called , in Althusserean parlance , ‘ practices ’ . |
| 8 | Well er if it 's a messy one , the first thing to do with it , is to split it up into little bits . |
| 9 | Oh no , it 's like , it 's like with chocolate as well , I cut it up into little pieces , because I ca n't eat it all at once . |
| 10 | Her gown had a train which brushed the floor , and she waited while the woman following her looped it up into neat folds and attached them to the fastening at her wrist . |
| 11 | Cork tiles are made by compressing the bark of the cork tree into a block , and then slicing it up into thin layers . |
| 12 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 13 | Fill it up with small pieces of wood , the drier the better , hardwood about the size of your fist . |
| 14 | Somehow I must have missed the original LPs ( or perhaps they were never released this side of the Atlantic ) , but here are Jean-Pierre Rampal , Isaac Stern , Yo-Yo Ma mixing it up with Japanese instrumentalists , playing traditional oriental music alongside pieces by Yamada , Miyagi , and Yoshizawa , amongst others . |
| 15 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 17 | Erm , well , what you did , when you talked about that , and then erm , linked it up with Freudian insights into the unconscious . |
| 18 | Put a layer of pebbles in a plant pot and then fill it up with healthy damp soil . |
| 19 | I put four teabags in there fill it up with boiling water right ? |
| 20 | On the other hand , even if the politician demonstrated his ability to provide a great deal of patronage , if he did not follow it up with effective social contact , he would be laying a poor foundation for a political interest , and the gratitude of the freeholders under those circumstances could be short-lived . |
| 21 | 2 Make a hay infusion ( Chapter 5 ) and leave it uncovered on a shady window-sill for several weeks , topping it up with cooled , boiled water when necessary . |
| 22 | The senders of it must have had misgivings as to whether he would obey as they appear to have decided to back it up with physical intimidation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ The one who used to hollow out the inside of a baguette for breakfast , and fill it up with condensed milk , and lower it into his mouth like a sword-swallower ? ’ |
| 25 | Then night time , when dad would bank it up with duff-mucky coal saved for this . |
| 26 | People around here have taken it up with different parties but everyone seems to pass the buck . |
| 27 | As it had in 1945 , 1964 and 1974 , Labour would inherit the mess the Tories had left behind , he said , but , this time , with an historic mission to clean it up for good . |
| 28 | Who remembers the Beatles singing ‘ Hey Jude ’ live , Jimi Hendrix doing ‘ Purple Haze ’ or David Bowie camping it up as Ziggy Stardust ? |
| 29 | Alternatively , use standard furnishing fabric and match it up to other furnishings in the room . |
| 30 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |