Example sentences of "[noun] it up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cherry reds polish — brown , tan or red all over the boot , then black smeared in the creases — to antique it up ! |
| 2 | I think I think it is a good idea though to erm oh right er to y'know kind of break it up a bit er particularly if at an early stage you 're intending to y'know kind of go through erm and get people to go through quite a lot of questions erm as a by way of er y'know kind of the first stages in in er developing this thing . |
| 3 | I usually play with my own phrasing and kind of jazz it up a little . |
| 4 | Er and er you 'd say , well try and get on old sheet and wash it thoroughly and iron them the p cut it up and iron them with a hot iron . |
| 5 | All he had to do was wind it up again to find the way out . |
| 6 | So basically they 've got ta just tray it up |
| 7 | tray it up here and then |
| 8 | The near-family , Swedish audience lap it up throughout and it 's not hard to see why . |
| 9 | The near-family , Swedish audience lap it up throughout and it 's not hard to see why . |
| 10 | She did n't dare mess it up . |
| 11 | That about wraps it up this month . |
| 12 | A ripple of glances round the room and the older man said : ‘ I guess that about wraps it up then . ’ |
| 13 | Take the soap and lather it up , ’ she hissed , standing , arms folded , in the door way . |
| 14 | The gunner looks through his optical sight , lines it up with an enemy tank and squeezes a trigger to fire a laser that measures the range . |
| 15 | ‘ Go and type it up now ! ’ he drawled tightly . |
| 16 | You travel round quite a few diffent places and meet famous people and type it up on the computer , 1124 things like that . |
| 17 | Bottling it up : Spiced kumquats make a sweet and sour surprise . |
| 18 | Peter Simpkins , who made the find , said : ‘ It showed up on a screen and all we had to do was dig it up . ’ |
| 19 | The pick it up . |
| 20 | In fact , what she does on the ice is scorch it up . |
| 21 | No we we we 've got er a contact phone number and er a contractor comes in and boards it up . |
| 22 | Ham it up . |
| 23 | ‘ You realise that when you tell it like it is , they ham it up for you anyway . ’ |
| 24 | PALS : Gardner and Gazza ham it up in the sun |
| 25 | So the Peter Cushings and Christopher Lees of the world can ham it up in filmland , dead or not , and the likes of Bruce ‘ Brusque ’ Dickinson can howl , ‘ Hell ai n't a bad place — Hell is from here to eternity ! ’ like a teenage terror , while chucking bits of ‘ The Lord 's Prayer ’ into the frame . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You muck it up . |
| 28 | that 's right and you know that if the staff has put theirselves out to make a decent crash in their environment they 're gon na go mad at the children if they muck it up , so therefore , you know , you 're gon na have that |
| 29 | That 's okay then , I wo n't muck it up . |
| 30 | Oh well you do it , I 'll only muck it up . |