Example sentences of "they [verb] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
| 2 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 3 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 4 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 5 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 6 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 7 | They make up the active elements of inflammation , and are concentrated in ‘ lymphoid tissue ’ such as : the tonsils ; the ‘ glands ’ in the groin , armpit and neck ( more properly called lymph nodes ) ; and the spleen which lies next to the stomach in the abdomen , as well as the bone marrow where they are made . |
| 8 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 9 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 10 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |
| 11 | Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations . |
| 12 | The mystery deepened when , instead of going seaward at the foot of the hill , they turned up the right bank of the Touques as if making for Deauville . |
| 13 | They walked up the wide stone steps and into a small reception area . |
| 14 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 15 | But they reached the house , or rather the road below , and when Adamus had paid the driver-no account was mentioned — they walked up the crumbling slope in the shadowed midday light , and came out among the wet green oaks , and the house appeared . |
| 16 | They walked up the steep cliff path and checked the life-saving equipment and the box of emergency supplies . |
| 17 | George was frowning in thought as they clattered up the prison-like stone steps to his set . |
| 18 | Main boomed out to port , genoa to starboard , they ghosted up the smooth waters of the river like a giant white butterfly as the first grey touch of dawn lightened the sky . |
| 19 | The engine of the bus protested bitterly and the close air filled with the heavy smell of petrol as they started up the steep brae . |
| 20 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 21 | They tried to kill her and her Cabinet , and nearly succeeded , when they blew up the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative Party conference . |
| 22 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 23 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 24 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 25 | As enzymes they speed up the chemical reactions of life . |
| 26 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 27 | When it comes to joining groups , they weigh up the personal benefits they might receive from the existence of a successful group protecting the interest they share with others . |
| 28 | They looked up the spiral stair . |
| 29 | Oh , a at nineteen forty eight they split up the electric supply and the three was nationalized and erm it , it just went out of the control of the local councils , it was government controlled then and there was a distinct possibility that the transport section would be sold off to private enterprise and the only private enterprise that was capable of taking over then was the Eastern Counties but erm I think the , the erm local council having had the transport under their wing for so many years , fought off that erm feeling and erm they kept with it and er , of course all the accountancy went to the Borough Treasurer and the certain members of clerks from the Borough Treasurers , which was at in those days , er seconded on to transport accounts . |
| 30 | So he looked at Matron , tight-faced and armored in starch , at Miss Guttner sitting lumpishly beyond her , her glasses shining blankly as they picked up the overhead light that filled the room with a necessary illumination against the heaviness of the sky pressing grayly against the windows . |