Example sentences of "they [verb] up the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
| 3 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 4 | They sometimes fancy they pick up the voices of the past , answering their prayers , and after presenting their gifts of flowers and fruit , they come away filled with hope that the great loas have agreed to grant whatever they were being implored to do . |
| 5 | ‘ Most include plant extracts which have a stimulating effect on the circulation so they top up the benefits of a massage and boost your blood flow for a little longer . |
| 6 | The methods we have covered do not represent all of those now being used , but they open up the possibilities of new approaches , some of which should become common tools of primary health care in the decade ahead . |
| 7 | They do n't pop , they do n't break they 're so cool they swim up the streets of Pontefract ! |
| 8 | When Maxim hoped he had finished , Lomax glanced at Agnes , then said : ‘ They brought up the Rules of Engagement business , then ? |
| 9 | They speed up the rates of interconversions of compounds that would otherwise proceed too slowly to be useful . |
| 10 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 11 | The results of their labours appeared in the party press in 1989 ; they summed up the perspectives of the most strongly reformist section of the social science community . |
| 12 | When they snapped up the fragments of Spain 's Caribbean empire , the Americans took Puerto Rico as a colony and subsidised it lavishly . |