Example sentences of "it up [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no , if you hang it up that long it 's hard work . |
| 2 | Some rap it up an rap it out |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you only have one rope , do your second a favour and either double it up or pull it through after doing the pitch and drop it back to your mate to protect the moves down the flake . |
| 5 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 6 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 7 | ‘ But there was nothing wrong with it , apart from the colour , so we decided to cut it up and sell it as skirt lengths . ’ |
| 8 | The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting . |
| 9 | He whacked it up and got it ; I won . |
| 10 | But she did n't get she got ill treated and that and he did n't the erm boy did n't feed him properly so it 's all sort of skin and bone so we went and brought his pony and erm , we sort of fed it up and got it going again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 14 | ‘ Dr Williams ripped a New Year 's Eve dance poster off the noticeboard , screwed it up and put it behind his back . ’ |
| 15 | One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket ’ ! |
| 16 | I was going to pick it up and put it outside again when a woman , a psychiatrist 's wife , stopped me . |
| 17 | It landed on the floor beside Lavender 's desk and very quickly she ducked down and picked it up and put it into her pencil-box for another time . |
| 18 | ‘ Roll it up and put it away , Snake , ’ came the response . |
| 19 | Anthony came to read it , then automatically folded it up and put it in the breast pocket of his black coat . |
| 20 | Undoing his Sulka tie , he rolled it up and put it in his pocket . |
| 21 | I folded it up and put it away in a small carved wooden box in which I kept other trinkets and treasures of no significance to anyone except myself . |
| 22 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 23 | It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms . |
| 24 | And then we had to pick it up and put it near Cider and Cider ate it . |
| 25 | You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road . |
| 26 | They 're one point eight G L Estate F reg , four thousand , two hundred , that 's A B C D E , five year 's difference , done four thousand , two hundred , two , eight hundred quid , well actually it 's , our cars worth over a grand if I 'd sprayed it up and put it on the market |
| 27 | They mix it up and put it in that ! |
| 28 | Although I keep pulling it up and throwing it in the dustbin , it keeps coming back . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | 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 . |