Example sentences of "they [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time . |
| 2 | ‘ Some of them got up my nose a bit … right sods the lot of them … there 's a collection of them , the Technical Drawing staff . |
| 3 | When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise . |
| 4 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , three-quarters of RAF churches have robed choirs , half of them made up entirely of adults and averaging eight to ten members . |
| 6 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 7 | While arguments regarding biologically-based sexual differences applied to all women , the Victorian scientists who developed them built up their theories on the basis of assumptions regarding the behaviour of women in their own class , and , as Elizabeth Fee has pointed out , there was therefore an essential circularity in their reasoning . |
| 8 | One of them came up behind him and hooked an arm around his throat while another snatched the whip from his hand . |
| 9 | Former New Seekers singer Lyn Paul was linked with him briefly and , in a ‘ kiss- and tell ’ interview , said , ‘ I think every time he took a girl out he compared her with his former wife , Gabrielle , and none of them came up to scratch . ’ |
| 10 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
| 11 | He was suspicious of the local people , and when any of them showed up he always put things of value out of sight . |
| 12 | ‘ One of them opened up with a chopper . |
| 13 | When they saw that the war could not be won , even as early as 1941 , some of them opened up lines of communication with us and the British . ’ |
| 14 | The pair of them teamed up again the following season when Moss also joined the German manufacturer . |
| 15 | Her brother , Roger Lewis , already had a company that made gigantic floor cushions , so the three of them teamed up and opened a cushion shop in Chelsea . |
| 16 | It was a vexatious summons , and none of them turned up . |
| 17 | There were a lot of very nasty people around , then as now , and if one of them turned up in no condition for a party , lying on the towpath , there was no questions asked . ’ |
| 18 | Most people here would be very worried if information about them turned up in Greece , or in other European Community countries , based upon suspicion . |
| 19 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
| 20 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 21 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 22 | If one of them hung up they 'd be tom apart again , three thousand miles . |
| 23 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 24 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 25 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 26 | Now the plays are dying and Father 's got the memory of them locked up in his head and no one to pass them to . |
| 27 | Conversely , flame-coloured harridans that looked as if only Agent Orange could stop them curled up and died of aristocratic pique at the advancing hordes of dandelions . |
| 28 | ‘ Then one of them flew up in front of us . |
| 29 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 30 | All that personal politics stuff had left them tied up in knots . |