Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 2 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 3 | ‘ So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks . |
| 4 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
| 5 | Two mini Margis in the stalls are the target of most of the ad libs , and they respond as if they grew up with the star . |
| 6 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 7 | I thought to myself that , however far they had wandered , if they ended up in the body of Leonard Arthur Pike they must be really desperate . |
| 8 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
| 9 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 10 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 11 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 12 | Somehow , she 'd have to end it before they moved up to the room , or the suite , or whatever Charlie 's contact had lined up for them . |
| 13 | When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices . |
| 14 | She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off . |
| 15 | MEMBERS of Southport Branch 's Service Circle each won 50 Ovations when they came up with the idea to give printed appointment cards to customers . |
| 16 | Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane . |
| 17 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke . |
| 20 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier . |
| 21 | Kylie and her new Svengali Blamey got an instant glimpse of that arrogance when they turned up on the doorstep of the Hit Factory . |
| 22 | There was a soft double-thump as they piled up on the panels . |
| 23 | As they walked up towards the main road , he was surprised to see her turn round to wave at the policemen as if they were old friends . |
| 24 | A burst of applause greeted caddies and players as they walked up into the arena . |
| 25 | They were ugly and ungainly , but necessary , Blackadder thought , as they sprang up like the heads of the Hydra , two to solve in the place of one solved . |
| 26 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
| 27 | As they came up to the warren bank he suddenly caught sight of Fiver . |
| 28 | She said coolly as they came up to the stuffed spaniel , ‘ What do you call him , that very fierce dog ? ’ |
| 29 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |
| 30 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |