Example sentences of "they [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | We er , er , had all these homes , they sprung up , and what they 've decided is , that is n't the way to go forward from here on in , what we 're going to do , er , we 're gon na have what 's called care in the community . |
| 2 | They crept up the back staircase to the third floor , testing each tread for creaks before stepping on it , nightclothes bunched in one hand lest they trip . |
| 3 | At Siwa they met up with Lieutenant Jaquier , one of the Free French , and his patrol , who had managed to blow up ammunition dumps at Barce , and a solitary Lieutenant Jordan accompanied by Captain Buck . |
| 4 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |
| 5 | They met up with Jordan and his men , plus the three officers who had remained with the radio truck , at Bir Guedaffia , where the final plans were made . |
| 6 | Tony had had a 68 to Jack 's 66 , so the lead was cut to 7 , and sure enough they met up again on the 6th and 12th greens . |
| 7 | They met up with Alfred Carter sooner than expected . |
| 8 | Here they met up with a team from the Combined Operations base in the Suez Canal Zone , with two canoe parties under Lieutenant Robert Smith RN . |
| 9 | Here they met up with Scott of Rankilburn , and a couple of hundred of his mosstroopers , going in the same direction . |
| 10 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 11 | Charles did n't tell Jacqui about their new ally in investigation when they met up that evening to report progress . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're getting warmer , sir , ’ said Marshall when they met up . |
| 13 | ‘ I could get fat , ’ Claudia teased : she liked the relaxed atmosphere between them this morning and hoped it would continue , at least until they met up with Dana and Garry . |
| 14 | They met up because of the papers . |
| 15 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 16 | When they met up with the rest of the Carlisle Flint team Kate tried to ignore the studiously impassive face of Mike Booker as he greeted her . |
| 17 | At Podromanija they met up with the Swedish relief convoy of 10 trucks , 9½ being filled with food and the remainder with medical supplies . |
| 18 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 19 | Ian liked the names and was content to scratch the animals ' heads as , emitting a warm goaty smell , they gazed up at him with calculating yellow eyes . |
| 20 | They gazed up at her , all five of them , pale with illness still , their confidence vanished with their mother 's going . |
| 21 | King Crimson was being partied by a signing label and they got up and played with Donovan . |
| 22 | I have n't found out yet what they got up to in their opium den with Coleridge and de Quincey . |
| 23 | The next day , of course , they got up and went out to vote . |
| 24 | At this point you say that in the night they all wanted to have a party so they got up . |
| 25 | It can happen , you know , what they got up to in that play ; it can happen . |
| 26 | They got up at five , leaving us alone but asleep , and returned by eight o'clock . |
| 27 | Soon after they got up — which was always late , which was lunchtime — he and Rufus went in swimming , keeping their feet off the gravelly or slimy bottom and their arms clear of the blanket weed which was like green hair . |
| 28 | One of his clients was Mike McGear , Paul McCartney 's brother and together they got up to some hair-raising pranks like trying to give a client a beer shampoo but drinking more of the vital ingredients before it so much as touched a single hair ! |
| 29 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 30 | They were doing in that shop exactly what they intended to do and in all probability , what they intended to do from the moment they got up that morning . |