Example sentences of "be [v-ing] it up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope , and I shall be bringing it up at the next police committee , that we will commit ourselves to that initiative will a view to bringing in those two pilot schemes in the county and extending it at a later date . |
| 2 | " I thought now was supposed to be the marvellous time , and we 're all meant to be living it up , burning the candle at both ends , finding out what we want to do with our lives . " |
| 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 | Oh somebody 'll be doing it up themselves . |
| 5 | Mm yes , but even her spare bedroom needs , she could be doing it up and renting that one . |
| 6 | I am still very shaken and will be taking it up with the American authorities . ’ |
| 7 | I have informally intimated to British Gas that we 'll be taking it up with them , not as a mere procedural matter through the joint secretary 's machinery , but as a negotiating matter , with the negotiating committee . |
| 8 | We 've lost sponsorship for our next exhibition [ on contemporary European architecture ] and we will be putting it up ourselves with students to guard it . |
| 9 | The band was tight , but everyone else had seemed to be making it up as they went along . |
| 10 | You should n't be lifting it up and putting it at back of your head ! |
| 11 | I will be backing it up with information from Teletext and Videotext in the United States by J. Tydeman et al , who include detailed information relating to current technology and future development of such systems . |