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Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it up [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain .
2	She tried to cover it up with a laugh .
3	And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive !
4	She tried to hold it up against Constance who pulled away and said loudly , ‘ Yellow !
5	‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’
6	EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't .
7	So , I tried to make it up to her in every way I could — though it was n't easy — she went on hating me for years . ’
8	We agreed to set it up at the last meeting .
9	I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken .
10	I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author .
11	‘ Pa , if only I 'd made it up with you , ’ she cried .
12	They 'd cleaned it up since then and taken the soot out .
13	And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it .
14	It was only later that Trivers began to link it up with Darwin .
15	Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade .
16	Annie weed down her leg and started to wipe it up with her hands .
17	Failing to find an appropriate site for a shot , the location manager on the new Willy Russell venture , Dancing Through The Dark , decided to mock it up by erecting a spanking new bus shelter in Wavertree , one of Liverpool 's livelier areas .
18	The microwave chimed and she hauled a still half-frozen block of chilli out on a big plate ; she started breaking it up with a large wooden spoon .
19	When I started to make it up to my horror I found the stripes did not match up front and back .
20	She took the garment , and struggled to pull it up over her hips .
21	If the letter had been burnt in the presence of all the members of the family immediately after being read , then the copy could only have been sent to him before they received it , by the person who went to pick it up from the rubbish skip .
22	I kept mixing it up with the florin ,
23	Twenty years ago , when the firm was of negligible size , Mr Fikret Abdić became its director and proceeded to build it up into a giant enterprise .
24	Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee .
25	Yes , well he s he did take it up with me as a , er , I mean you did take it up
26	I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court .
27	It 's , it was done that 's why did block it up with a in the first instance .
28	It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit .
29	He had given it up for his very inferior car when he started courting Big Brenda out of the Biology lab — Biological Brenda , as Preston called her , who gave them lessons on sex , and no doubt Sam as well .
30	This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party , the National Democrats , whose anti-U S , anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 — 8 .