Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] it up " in BNC.
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| 1 | You all know what Strats sound like and what 5-position selectors do , but to get an overall picture of this guitar I lined it up against a regular office hack ( a Tokai hybrid with an old ‘ 58 Fender neck and Alnico Pro II 's in the middle and bridge positions ) and can report that the SRV came out well . |
| 2 | As the floor numbering system at all modern universities is totally unintelligible to everyone except the drug-crazed mathematician who thought it up , I just followed my nose . |
| 3 | Ian Murdoch of the receivers , KPMG Peat Marwick , said : ‘ It is always satisfying when a quality company is saved and particularly when it is sold to the management who built it up . ’ |
| 4 | What 's more , at the end of the year we 'll be choosing the best tip of all , and the gardening genius who dreamt it up will win a fantastic holiday for two — with spending money — in exotic Thailand . |
| 5 | Even with so many miles under its belt the injected 108bhp engine is never truly competitively smooth and quiet , but this young engine was quite intolerable , its overall lack of refinement evident the moment you fired it up . |
| 6 | Usually her blonde hair stretched down to her elbows but on that evening she wore it up , tied with a black ribbon . |
| 7 | It slowed things up to keep slipping it in and out of my jeans pocket so after a while I tucked it up the sleeve of my jersey . |
| 8 | And the next day I picked it up and of course it was ten shillings , my full |
| 9 | There is no need to tell everyone all the details , any more than Peter makes any mention or testimony in his letters about the day he messed it up . |
| 10 | When one rolled along the ground he picked it up and stood it on its end to stop it rolling . |
| 11 | The tight wool mini just wider than the belt which held it up , ended where the ripped black tights began . |
| 12 | One by one she slid out the drawers , then taking a necklace from its bed she held it up . |
| 13 | And that was when we came , and we started hay-making along there to the man-killers we called him , of course there 's a better picture here and I 've got it here along with the man-killer we caught it up , and we 've got someone coming along behind . |
| 14 | I really got embarrassed collecting my dole , and in the end I gave it up . |
| 15 | Erm but er I hope you 're not going to way that er Westminster Council has gone , for each er er er , er er th their property into disrepair they bought it up , do it up and flog it on the open market when a few yards away there are people no a er now sleeping under bridges and canals ! |
| 16 | This time I left it up to my patient to decide which area of her life was causing her the most distress . |
| 17 | Allen told a conference prior to the company 's annual meeting that March calling volumes were strong , ‘ even discounting for some weather which popped it up a bit . ’ |
| 18 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 19 | When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect . |