Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 2 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 3 | After a while they pulled up outside a large concrete hotel , not quite finished , incorporating a long cruelly-lit restaurant , almost empty , which faced the road . |
| 4 | The next day they lay up in a cave and managed to distil a small quantity of water which tasted vile . |
| 5 | On the fourth evening of their waterborne journey they tied up at a place which had thickets of hazel and birch growing near the water . |