Example sentences of "[vb pp] it up " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Councillor , well well we 'll find out , Councillor has put this motion in , I 've wound it up Lord Mayor , I 'll challenge him or any of his team to a public debate where we can look at the record about , name your place , name your time , I will , I will debate with you in public Councillor on our record of reforms and the Health Service . |
| 3 | Oh I ai n't wound it up after I put my shirt down there . |
| 4 | No , I 've hoovered it up . |
| 5 | I hope that figure is right er , I have to confess that I have not added it up and er the copy that I have , the five and the nine could be mistaken for other figures , but I hope that there the right figures to that must be added first the general damages a calculation which like all by other calculations need to be carefully checked , I would er calculate the interest on general damages to date would be five thousand , two hundred and seven pounds future care totals six hundred and twelve thousand , five hundred and seventeen pounds suitable accommodation , seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds , transport costs thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds , that makes a total of one million , two hundred and six thousand , three hundred and thirty eight pounds that is the amount which I would be minding to award , I understand that the parties in the light of that would wish to have further discussions about the matter |
| 6 | cos the egg white would have fluffed it up and it 'd more |
| 7 | It have fluffed it up a bit . |
| 8 | Proper black and white processing takes weeks these days , unless you have your own darkroom , and sometimes the photo-kiosks think they 've cocked it up when the pictures come out sepia and so they do n't charge . |
| 9 | He 's cocked it up ! |
| 10 | This is what cumulative evolution is all about , although , because of our high mutation rate , we have speeded it up here to unrealistic rates . |
| 11 | I 've just looked it up . |
| 12 | Rufus had called her a waif and Adam had immediately ridiculed this word , said it was a romantic novelist 's word , so they had looked it up in Hilbert 's Shorter Oxford Dictionary and found illuminating things . |
| 13 | now I 've looked it up , that 's supposed to actually be in our library |
| 14 | You 've looked it up in the Titmarsh have you ? |
| 15 | Have you looked it up then ? |
| 16 | It 's probably in the dialect book , I have n't looked it up . |
| 17 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 18 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 19 | If Tory supporters were in fact more likely to vote than those of other parties , a more refined analysis might have picked it up . |
| 20 | One has the impression that the politicians have half-heartedly picked it up so as not to be left behind in the citizenship fashion-parade , or maybe because they have been prodded into rendering some kind of lip-service by their convinced academics . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe I should have picked it up , found out if it really was blood or not … ’ |
| 22 | News of the child 's intervention on stage at Scranton had spread through show business and some of the vaudeville columns had picked it up . |
| 23 | Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later . |
| 24 | One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket ’ ! |
| 25 | I 'm inclined to believe that this probably happened after the guitar left the Hamer factory ; any quality control worth its salt would have picked it up , otherwise . |
| 26 | She wondered where she 'd picked it up , and who was missing it . |
| 27 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 28 | My mother is an expert at that and I 've picked it up . |
| 29 | Had the maid picked it up , had it posted ? |
| 30 | Well she 's picked it up |