Example sentences of "up [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the fault-tolerance front IBM says that Mode 3 substantially cuts the delay between the one machine failing and the other one picking up where it left off ; by the company 's own estimation the switch can take from anywhere between a long 30 seconds to a horribly long five minutes in modes 1 and 2 . |
| 2 | Measures that drive up the costs of waste disposal may appear to fulfil the principle that polluters should pay for the dirt they create ; but they also encourage waste to end up where it should not . |
| 3 | They believe that reality ‘ points beyond itself ’ in the sort of way that the pile of books points beyond itself , in that we know something must be holding it up or it would fall . |
| 4 | Right , cos , it 's like everything , it 's like your weight it either goes up and up and up or it goes down and down and down , you 'll never hold it the same |
| 5 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
| 6 | The makers of Until The End Of The World own up that it was actually shot in Bolton with some clever filters and a broken Nintendo |
| 7 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 8 | I had n't gone on the Pill because I did n't want to admit that I was doing something wrong , because mum had always brought me up that it was wrong before marriage . |
| 9 | The other girl in contrast to both Jenny and Sheila was so heavily made up that it was like looking at someone behind a mask . |
| 10 | They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue . |
| 11 | He said when Mr McKay 's sick note was sent in it was not picked up that it had anything to do with the accident . |
| 12 | A lot of people in the business are watching it and the ratings have gone up although it is opposite Coronation Street . |
| 13 | It is then racked ( passagem ) , when it is pumped up so it can fall into a trough and air can pass through it . |
| 14 | ‘ You ever get it totally screwed up so it comes out like shrieks and coloured vomit ? ’ |
| 15 | He says sometimes it 's a pain cos you get up and if I 'm late I 've got to rush around and go as fast as I can to school and you get cold and your fingers start freezing up so it 's not much fun . |
| 16 | A personnel specification is far easier to draw up than it sounds . |
| 17 | The principle of rapacious egoism , Shakespeare shows , does not let up once it has achieved its first-formulated goal . |
| 18 | turn the fire up cos it 's not very warm in here . |
| 19 | Hurry up cos it 's near our turn to be serv where 's my purse . |
| 20 | Well the other thing that 's really good is , cos you 've all got that set up cos it is a disco |
| 21 | erm but after a few months dad gave it up cos it was erm too wet and that where weeds could grow easily |
| 22 | But like , I got the mirror down and like , I looked at it and whether it was the light or whether it just had n't come up cos it was only like , a few seconds afterwards |
| 23 | It 's easier if it 's on the level ah side up cos it should I 've never had mine on the floor . |
| 24 | Really careful with it but you still pick the outline up cos it 's in that area . |
| 25 | And this 'll be your easier one to sew up cos it 's blue . |
| 26 | pick it up cos it 's in speech marks I 'll put the speech marks back after it |
| 27 | Infected programmes activate the virus when started up and it looks for other programmes to infect . |
| 28 | By noon the sun has come up and it 's getting very warm ; the orchard appears peaceful , the sound of guns seem a long distance away . |
| 29 | The sheer pleasure of it swept him up and it was a full minute before he pulled back and looked at her , amazed at how happy he felt . |
| 30 | That was all very well for the adolescent mankind , but in order to evolve , we have to realise we 've grown up and it 's time to leave home . |