Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 2 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 3 | The rear windows have steamed up by the time we decant her , and do not clear again until we are nearly over Putney Bridge . |
| 4 | Form the moment they wake up until the time they go to bed , whether they are playing with friends or at school , their minds and bodies are always active . |
| 5 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 6 | as things cropped up at the time she just showed me how to do it , and I just picked it from there . |
| 7 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 8 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 9 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 10 | that makes up for the time you , then doing the |