Example sentences of "it [verb] up a " 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 | Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It heads up a pop promotion with a wonderful shout line : A-WOP-BOP-A-SIDGWICK-A-LOP-BAM-PAN ! ! |
| 11 | Er it speeds up a reaction , it is n't used in the reaction , it just speeds it up . |
| 12 | I had it turned up a bit too loud . |
| 13 | This command tells it to set up a storage area called Employees and to allocate space for Employee Number , Name , Department and any other items specified . |
| 14 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 15 | Yellow is more stimulating , so use it to brighten up a cold room |
| 16 | Someone could have put it away or be using it to sweep up a broken wine glass . |
| 17 | Once this new mode of production began to replace the old , it threw up a new class of owners . |
| 18 | It opened up a three-shot lead going into the second and that gave us a nice little cushion to work with . |
| 19 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 20 | Their colonization of Brazil was even more momentous since it opened up a source which during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led the world in the production of gold . |
| 21 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 22 | It conjures up a vision of a large , appetizing meal , around which the whole family gathers , to share food and conversation in an especially leisurely way . |
| 23 | It turned up a year later , all rewritten but basically identical , as a PhD at San Diego . |
| 24 | and he got it turned up a bit and sounds bloody from the other room |
| 25 | For instance it clears up a tiresome controversy over the level at which natural selection acts . |
| 26 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 27 | Instead , it cooked up a market-sharing deal with Du Pont that was to last until 1944 , when it was the subject of a celebrated American antitrust suit . |
| 28 | This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere . |
| 29 | In no case can it set up a trust . |
| 30 | Does it set up a lot of directories ? |