Example sentences of "it up [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A two-year-old motor-cruiser with a litre of two-year-old diesel in its tanks used it up while trying to separate the crashed boats , and so joined them . |
| 2 | But no , if you hang it up that long it 's hard work . |
| 3 | GEORGE ORWELL claimed writing was a curse and nobody should take it up unless driven by inner demons . |
| 4 | One of the station employees was following a discarded wrapper across the concrete , trying to pick it up but thwarted every time by a fresh breeze that blew the litter out of his reach . |
| 5 | Some rap it up an rap it out |
| 6 | bring it up as scheduled |
| 7 | ‘ I had given it up as lost , ’ said Mr Tyson , who lives in South Ruislip , Middlesex . |
| 8 | c ) Carefully draw your own rectangle , about the same size and divide it up as shown above . |
| 9 | One user summed it up as follows : |
| 10 | This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) . |
| 11 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I never bothered to look it up or ask anybody if that was true , but he 'd say , ‘ I 've got very low blood pressure so it does n't matter how much I drink . ’ |
| 14 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The company should organise to pick it up or pay for it to be returned to them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | did somebody come and set it up or did |
| 19 | Er I 've got some notes here which I can go through would n't actually be necessary but When Sally-Ann 's going through her notes if anyone else would like raise anything which backs it up or disagrees with it or whatever then , you know please you know butt in and say whatever think might might be relevant at the time . |
| 20 | of course , when you get one of those calls and you divert it back to the switchboard or divert it direct to when you put the phone down pick it up and dial zero , so you put another call through to headquarters community affairs and its not through us |
| 21 | But mother crumbled it up and sprinkled dry salt over it instead . |
| 22 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 23 | Well I think it 's best to , yeah yeah , I mean o the best thing to do is actually lift it up and use a little bit of the underneath to try out the colours what colour 's that going to be ? |
| 24 | ‘ But there was nothing wrong with it , apart from the colour , so we decided to cut it up and sell it as skirt lengths . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He whacked it up and got it ; I won . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I just picked it up and got rid of it . |
| 29 | Shoot the bird to wake it up and switch to the straight-up bullets . |
| 30 | The criminal stooped , picked it up and sniffed . |