Example sentences of "it up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back it up . |
| 2 | What d' you mean back it up ? |
| 3 | I remember when I left Central School in 1966 they said the average life for a woman in the theatre was three years and seven for a man before giving it up . |
| 4 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 5 | Set it up . |
| 6 | Set it up against the window , he wrote . |
| 7 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 8 | If you do n't make up your mind soon I might just break it up . |
| 9 | He focused , stared , reached out and picked it up . |
| 10 | That just about wraps it up . |
| 11 | What 's more , at the end of the year we 'll be choosing the best tip of all , and the gardening genius who dreamt it up will win a fantastic holiday for two — with spending money — in exotic Thailand . |
| 12 | Always make sure that the person on the tail is briefed to hold it up until someone has their weight on the nose . |
| 13 | A simple mount is invaluable , and it is best to set it up to get the wing-tip in the top corner of the frame . |
| 14 | I am half-pissed and brilliant , Francis takes me for egg and chips and strong tea and tells me to give it up . |
| 15 | Dare I say give it up ? |
| 16 | ‘ Given that you ca n't give it up , and you seem unable to scrub round it at present , ’ said Francis , ‘ what exactly have you got ? |
| 17 | Then I 'd disappear for days and make everyone go crazy with worry while I whooped it up down the nearest alley with some ear-tom tom . |
| 18 | One or your down-fine hairs was on the pillow : I picked it up like gold-dust-sweet relic ! |
| 19 | Give it up ! ’ |
| 20 | How could she and how could she not give it up ? |
| 21 | You 'll never keep it up ! the voice was back with all it could muster as vengeance . |
| 22 | Then slow the pace down for two minutes before hiking it up again . |
| 23 | Wrap the bandage around the injured limb , then spiral it up or down for one turn . |
| 24 | The others took it up , humming or singing , and walked in time to it until old Donald got breathless and they had to saunter for a while . |
| 25 | The young man passed it up , the little circlet of gold glistening between the tips of his thick hard fingers . |
| 26 | Now Donald was bracing himself to take the weight of the heavier outer door and Donald McLaggan was helping him , easing it up off its hinges . |
| 27 | How could it have come about , he marvelled afresh , that they had parcelled it out and tied it up with strings of law ? |
| 28 | I crossed the room and picked it up , still wearing my coat . |
| 29 | ‘ I picked it up at Camden Lock . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've bought it , ’ said Amanda , ‘ and I want to see it up . ’ |