Example sentences of "it up [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |
| 2 | Did the wives say , ‘ Had a good day , dear ? ’ and did the husbands reply , ‘ Not bad except that poor Fred could n't get it up at all . |
| 3 | No , you said would I bring it up at this meeting . |
| 4 | and so land reform was no longer seen as a means to achieve their end that they that and that it was n't the best policy to consolidate power , it was you needed to have the mass support there first so that 's why land reform was no longer seen as their goal so they did n't take it up at this point when one would expect them to pursue it . |
| 5 | All these people have discovered a passion for one of the most popular recreational sports , sailing , and as you can see , you can take it up at any age . |
| 6 | To the shrew , 24 hours seems so long that it divides it up into many smaller intervals of activity and rest , effectively experiencing many days within one rotation of the Earth . |
| 7 | ‘ They are both gentle and kind , and are not capable of doing something like this , let alone covering it up with such success . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll turn the child 's head , ’ he used to say , ‘ filling it up with all that nonsense . ’ |
| 9 | The slowness of the process means that you can fill it up with all the necessary ingredients for your soup , stew , casserole , risotto , or pudding , before you go out in the morning and you will arrive home to a wonderful smell and a meal that is instantly ready . |
| 10 | He picked it up with all the enthusiasm of a man finding a mail-order death-warrant on his mat . |
| 11 | I just scoop it up with that . |
| 12 | Clearing it up with those and putting those erm tie backs on . |
| 13 | However , the participants of the Geneva conference recognised the incomplete nature of their work and they hoped to follow it up with another conference . |
| 14 | Unless the agent can give you figures showing that it really will pay you to cash in your present policy and take out a completely new one , keep it on and top it up with another , smaller policy . |
| 15 | Then probably , if the weather was fine the next day or two , we would go and drag-rake it up with another horse in a drag-rake ; and then rake it all up and put it on the cock . |
| 16 | Someone spills the maple syrup , and tries to mop it up with another table 's tablecloth . |
| 17 | The relentlessly lumbering movie machine has taken a truly extreme , hallucinatory book about oppression and obedience , juiced it up with some patronising love interest and turned it into a standard ‘ women 's issues ’ film : sanitised , regulated and pointless . |
| 18 | Still — I hope you enjoi reeding the buk as much as I 'm going to enjoi boiling it up with some vegtables and eeting it . |
| 19 | I just brought it up with some er , just in case cos we do n't , we do n't really wan na use that for like these . |
| 20 | I think we must have bunged it up with some gunge ! |
| 21 | With about a third of a cup of milk , you mix it up with some sugar and then you put boiling water in . |
| 22 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 23 | They had endured an embarrassing fund-raising dinner , for which rich Americans had paid 5,000 dollars a ticket , only to discover on their return that the Confederation of British Industry had done nothing to follow it up with any kind of sales drive . |
| 24 | This repulsive scene ( and play it up for all its worth ! ) requires that each adventure make a successful T test . |
| 25 | If you have stress incontinence this exercise will help if you do it regularly and keep it up for several months : |
| 26 | However , if you do n't want to eat or drink it today , save it up for another occasion . |
| 27 | You wo n't be able to keep it up for more than a week . ’ |
| 28 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 29 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 30 | ‘ We can make it up to each other now , ca n't we ? ’ |