Example sentences of "it [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Save any vegetable water and use it to whip up a healthy cocktail or as a basis for gravy . |
| 2 | The next developments involved spectroscopy. the study of the sharp coloured lines resolved by a prism when it splits up the light emitted by a heated specimen . |
| 3 | It points up the importance of admissions , and suggests that the assessment of a course may ‘ wash back ’ on its content and aims . |
| 4 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 5 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 6 | and put your heel down and it clips up the back , it was like |
| 7 | But I do n't drink very much — it slows up the reflexes and I play squash and tennis two or three times a week . ’ |
| 8 | Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the greenhouse effect is so efficient that this energy becomes trapped to the extent that it drives up the surface temperatures to the observed values . |
| 10 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 11 | Undramatic in its effect and narrow in its scope , highly forgettable and often forgotten by historians , it made up the bulk of parliamentary business . |
| 12 | You let them play against one another and sometimes you transfer a player from one club to another , so that it builds up a mutual admiration society . |
| 13 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 14 | Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow . |
| 15 | When the team trusts itself it builds up a view not simply about the one school and what needs to be done in small detail but also about the pressures and demands of society as a whole . |
| 16 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 17 | An onshore wind will also be difficult since it builds up the waves into difficult chop which can break on the beach with mast-breaking force . |
| 18 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 19 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 20 | How large were the , were the classes with these influx of all these , di did it boost up the numbers in the ? |
| 21 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 22 | She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace . |
| 23 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 24 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 25 | But , because it tones up the muscles and firms the body , you may well lose inches . |
| 26 | See the idea was it it picked up the the balls , took them to the and then the ball rolled round inside globe , slowly down to the bottom and then picked it up |
| 27 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 28 | It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! ! |
| 29 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 30 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |