Example sentences of "it up [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any reasonably well-known professional scientist will receive from time to time letters written by bell-meaning people who indicate , usually in rather guarded terms , that they have in their possession the solution to the riddle of the universe and they just need a little help in polishing it up or propagating it . |
| 2 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 3 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 4 | Although I keep pulling it up and throwing it in the dustbin , it keeps coming back . |
| 5 | Yeah I know it 's well again , you know , kind of once you can see , once you can see what 's wrong with it rather than just sort of , you know , screwing it up and throwing it away , you know kind of if you can use that as a basis for , for , you know , kind of putting more of the stuff in that makes it look a bit more academic |
| 6 | you want to see me , I get up three times to rake ashes er out and then I go int the kitchen in that cupboard , gerra newspaper and I 'm here screwing it up and throwing it on fireplace . |
| 7 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 8 | DIGGING IT UP AND WRITING IT DOWN |
| 9 | Yeah , this guy comes home from work and his wife 's got the chair and she 's picking it up and taking it around like this |
| 10 | ‘ We might find ways of tripping it up and destroying it , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Ten-year-old Luke Johnson dug it up and thinking it was ‘ dead ’ , planned to take it home as an ornament . |
| 12 | Cos I remember , I remember picking it up and reading it , I was out in the garden at the time . |
| 13 | ‘ This is for you , ’ he said , picking it up and offering it to her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The upper and working classes , being less verbal , less given to talk of shoulds and oughts between the sheets , have less trouble , if you 'll forgive me , simply getting it up and putting it in , to the relief and satisfaction of everyone concerned . |
| 16 | You should n't be lifting it up and putting it at back of your head ! |
| 17 | right , two things first of all I mean I think this is the first one and once Napier get it up and running I think it 's exportable |
| 18 | Here , bacteria get to work on it , softening it up and making it ready for chewing . |
| 19 | Corbett pushed the meat through and watched the leading dog seize it in his huge jaws , throwing it up and devouring it , the blood streaming down his black , slavering mouth . |
| 20 | She slipped it from his shoulders , folding it up and placing it carefully on the chair . |
| 21 | She was toying with the sand , scooping it up and letting it trail through her fingers , and she did n't see the expression in his eyes when he next spoke . |