Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it up " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a solicitors pick it up and my Lord so you can , you can see what the dispute was . |
| 2 | Trent passed it up along with his weightbelt , slipped off his flippers and mask , dropped them over the taffrail and pulled himself into the cockpit . |
| 3 | There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Mum snatched it up to see what we had got but Dad forestalled the outburst he knew was coming . |
| 6 | You and Mum built it up from a seedy little run-down nothing ! |
| 7 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 8 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , and that used to be our strength before , er that 's the sphere of operations done before the there was more , if you like , , technology , shall we say , associated with varying sort of manual valves than what there is power valves , in other words power valves offers it up to people like , or |
| 10 | when you get tho when you get the half the er when you get sort of well like the scooterist dos and th the DJs bring it up , I mean they bring in a hard core |
| 11 | Mummy pick it up . ’ |
| 12 | Revenue from normal trading fell , but the club made it up from the transfer market . |
| 13 | The ruminant continually regurgitates food from its stomach to its mouth to chew it up further ( that is what a cow is doing when ‘ chewing cud ’ ) . |
| 14 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 15 | With its trial balloon grounded again , the next attempt to patch it up came from Vincent Cannistraro , who claimed to have been in charge of the CIA 's contribution to the Flight 103 investigation until his retirement in September 1990 . |
| 16 | They had to retrace their steps to pick it up again , while a second team discovered that neither a policeman nor the Council knew where the Local Authority parcels office was . |
| 17 | The street 's real wide , and there 's loads of cars jamming it up . |
| 18 | The paper in our lounge and in the hall , and tha where you put that piece to cover it up , it 's all black under there where it 's wearing on the corners of the wall where you go round and kno it looks black , so I 'm sure it 's black underneath and you just |
| 19 | That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up . |
| 20 | He wasted billions of foreign currency reserves propping it up . |
| 21 | If the existing carpet is in reasonable condition but you 're sick to death of it you could add rugs to cheer it up . |
| 22 | She had struggled too hard for her independence and peace of mind to give it up so easily . |
| 23 | i have a line and think why wait till tomorrow , we are wrapped in the present , like a seamless and infinite cloak ; past and future are convenient illusions. time passes into eternity , so i ring ( eternal symbol ) mr and mrs monster to fix it up but no answer . |
| 24 | Equestrianism : Whitaker 's wonder horse wraps it up |
| 25 | Anglo-Welsh was a relatively new consortium of previously independent regional breweries put together during the later 1970s by a shrewd and aggressive operator named K. Midas , who made no secret of his ambition to build it up until it rivalled the major national breweries . |
| 26 | erm It 's often long-range , strategic research which people are doing which erm it will contribute in ten or twenty years ' time , provided that industry picks it up appropriately . |
| 27 | The congregation were like different parts of a huge engine , each one passing a movement on and the recipient taking it up and changing it . |
| 28 | Alternatively it might use the wind rather than fighting it : it would allow the wind to lift it up and then come down , flapping its wings and ‘ closing down ’ until it was able to drop . |
| 29 | This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover . |
| 30 | ‘ He wrote a story , with pictures to back it up , about an American general supposedly handing over documents to a beautiful KGB agent on Hamburg 's Kennedy Bridge . |