Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | the army was , it were built up like the er , er Mafia , it were built on fear , yes |
| 2 | Thus , with a rate of inflation averaging 4% in the 1980s , the £58 licence fee set in 1985 would have had to increase by £7 by 1988 if it were to keep up with the increase in the general price level only . |
| 3 | End date it 's picking up off the same list . |
| 4 | It 's picking up onto the same list is it ? |
| 5 | It 's rainin' up in the mountains accordin' to that nice immigration laddie . |
| 6 | If you 're buying a cut tree , you 'll be paying obviously from where it 's cut up to the bottom branch , or if it 's a rooted tree you 'll be paying from ground level up to the bottom branch again . |
| 7 | When the second part of the strap is cut it 's matched up with the main piece for colour . |
| 8 | It 's to warm up for the weekend it said . |
| 9 | It 's mixed up with the levy on Copts , apparently . ’ |
| 10 | ROS : It 's coming up through the floor . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's coming up to the boil , I would say , ’ said Ramses , ‘ coming up to the boil . ’ |
| 12 | Yes , that 's it some odd nights we was on our way home from work , it 's going up to the even when we 're on earlies and and weekends we can go there ca n't we ? |
| 13 | Erm the actual post I liked , I 'm glad it 's standing up above the horizon because at least that way , you know , i it does it 's given some dominance in the picture . |
| 14 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 15 | ‘ And sure , there is no harm in the other ranks having a wee drop before it is served up to the new Brigadier . ’ |
| 16 | It is bound up with the family as a whole . |
| 17 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 18 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 19 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 20 | It is not love if it is locked up in the vaults of our dreams for a better world and a happier life . |
| 21 | In such a sample , the researcher specifies what type of people he or she wants in the sample , within broad categories ( quotas ) , and it is left up to the interviewer to find such people to interview . |
| 22 | But it is left up to the Customs and Excise to implement on-site inspection and seizure of animals . |
| 23 | But it is left up to the applications developers themselves to synchronise the directories by reading the various separate directories and then updating the StreetTalk database with any changes . |
| 24 | The essence of it is summed up in the old proverb : " Give a man a fish and he is satisfied for a day : teach him how to fish and he will be satisfied for the rest of his life . " |
| 25 | It is summed up in the words of Paul about his planned arrival in Rome : |
| 26 | Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems . |
| 27 | To ensure a tight connection fix the boom when it is angled up to the mast |
| 28 | The collector will know that it is faked up in the style of an earlier period . |
| 29 | And then it was taken out and er dripped and cleaned , and then it was hung up in the kitchen to dry , and that was how the hams were done . |
| 30 | but erm er I think that er that picture I borrowed , I mean with her permission of course , erm and er I think it was hung up in the bathroom or somewhere , which was not the best place for a photograph to be really . |