Example sentences of "they [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made up almost forty percent of the army |
| 2 | well not directly , erm because the whole purpose of the divisionalization was to put the skill and expertise into each division , at the initial stage of erm divisionalization there were no other marketing people immediately in those other divisions , I was occasionally called on to assist but progressively as they built up there own marketing expertise then my needs were less , they needed me less . |
| 3 | But they grew up early these days . |
| 4 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 5 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |
| 6 | Then I store the magazines in the bottom of the wardrobe as they take up too much space in my knitting room . |
| 7 | Thirdly , rule-specification is a means of ‘ job enlargement ’ , a process of elaborating housework tasks so they take up endlessly increasing amounts of time . |
| 8 | City will welcome a return to home territory after three successive away games , which have seen them pick up only one point from the draw at Carlisle on Tuesday . |
| 9 | The idea of the event was that 12 teams of people , most of them dressed up as rare animals , had 12 hours to get as far as possible without using any money . |
| 10 | However , the two of them stayed up late last night , drinking my best booze , and this morning Em 's been slamming doors quite a bit , and giving me dirty looks . |