Example sentences of "it up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oh I 'll just make it up at lunch .
2 Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics
3 where I used to put two , two bags on a day , and have it up at number five and six we 've got it on one bag a day and it 's on nu less than number one .
4 The principles as civil proceedings and the topic is now run by it goes on and that mainly deals with criminal material and then one can pick it up at paragraph thirty two er seventeen when er the authors addressed themselves to civil proceedings er and that er following passage deals with effects of the civil evidence act and the relevant procedures and then moving on my Lord to er to in fact , thirty two thirty nine on page eighty hundred and twenty nine the expert has furnished the judge or jury with the necessary scientific criteria for testing the accuracy of her conclusion so that to enable the judge or jury to perform their own independent judgement by the application of these criteria to the facts proved in evidence .
5 Let me turn you to a er a little incident that happened with the erm , in the life of Jesus , it 's in Matthew chapter nine and , just gon na read I think it 's three verses there Now let's pick it up at verse twenty seven , this is in and Jesus passed on from there .
6 You 'd like to fiddle with the buttons of reality as he does , feel it up without remorse , without the sense that you have betrayed some shadowy commitment .
7 His parents were indignant when they discovered about it and he gave it up through respect for their views .
8 Frowning , for he was fastidious in all his personal habits , he picked it up between thumb and index finger , deposited it on his plate and wiped the soiled fingers on his napkin .
9 She picked it up between thumb and forefinger and strolled into the garden .
10 If you have a little bit , then they make it up wi' Parish Relief .
11 I will clear it up post haste .
12 Well do you know what brought , brought it up about computer games ?
13 But once you got the bone , you take it home , bake it , dry it well , and break it up into powder .
14 Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective .
15 Well , what we wan na do is do one , do week by week and then split it up into day by day .
16 Thus the liner is effectively sealed between three rows of bricks and brings it up above water level , preventing seepage .
17 Remember my washing machine where I used to turn the handle at the top , heat it up with gas
18 Then , almost in the same breath and contemplating all that space , he added , ‘ You 're not going to fill it up with furniture are you ? ’
19 Not long after that day a big van came and some men filled it up with furniture .
20 Oh I cried when Penny went I really did , I said you with a temper and that last day you know , we all got a bucket filled it up with ash trays , dog ends , bits of paper , oh I do n't know what was in it
21 One of his main interests was Italian art , but he rather felt he 'd like to keep that for himself , not muck it up with money and degrees .
22 Then fill it up with water from the kettle , Not boiling , mind , that could prove disastrous .
23 In summer , you 'll need to top it up with water to cope with any evaporation and fish will need regular feeding .
24 Newcomen got round this difficulty by fitting a leather skirt on top of the piston , this being kept supple by filling it up with water .
25 Design indented shorelines with sloping shelves and islands , fill it up with water , plant vegetation — and wait for the wildfowl to fly in to the resulting ‘ dug out ’ lake .
26 Yes he was , you see and he used to come down , you know , and everybody 's family waiting to go into that tiny tiny little surgery but I do n't know if it 's the same now and the door half open in er well , anyway , still er he , he , he , he used to put something in a bottle and fill it up with water some liquid
27 It 's all I can offer , but if you felt like pouring us a couple , then topping it up with water
28 Half of the wine and they top it up with water .
29 I 'll fill it up with water .
30 I 'm going to unravel the little prick 's knickers , and I 'm going to expose its little rubber bladder , or whatever it is those obnoxious bloody choirboys filled with joke-shop blood , then I 'm going to fill it up with piss and hang it back on that music stand .
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