Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
| 2 | ‘ One of them opened up with a chopper . |
| 3 | There were a lot of very nasty people around , then as now , and if one of them turned up in no condition for a party , lying on the towpath , there was no questions asked . ’ |
| 4 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
| 5 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 6 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 7 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 8 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 9 | The guard who had brought them went up beside the chair , knelt and spoke quietly to Bruce in a language Corbett could not understand and guessed that it was probably Gaelic , a language totally alien to him . |
| 10 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 11 | Here they met up with a team from the Combined Operations base in the Suez Canal Zone , with two canoe parties under Lieutenant Robert Smith RN . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And they all , they got up in the morning and I was n't home still |
| 15 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 16 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 17 | They clammed up after a bit and would n't show me everything , but he thinks I put it all in the water hoping Harry would get tangled in it . ’ |
| 18 | then they moved down to the house opposite the green in front of the church which I think the now live in next to the , Janet and Peter , that house and then they moved up to a bungalow . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The wheel gathered momentum as they rose up to the top : balanced , it seemed , on nothingness for a precarious second , then plunged , in a stomach-churning dive , back to earth again . |
| 21 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 22 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 23 | ‘ And mind out , ’ Ma Bombie warned them as they lined up outside the classroom . |
| 24 | They lined up behind the elastic . |
| 25 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 26 | There was something in the speed , as they rounded corners on two wheels , that shook her out of her bad mood , and when they drew up with a squeal of brakes in the narrow road just by Pepe 's Bar , she was laughing at Miguel 's uncharacteristic recklessness . |
| 27 | Just as she had expected , there were lights still ablaze as they drew up before the house . |
| 28 | They caught up with the truck and followed it back to camp . |
| 29 | Over the moor they went until , at last , they caught up with the hounds . |
| 30 | They gave me two options , basically one was to take the system down for twenty four hours and er while they got , they caught up with the jobs which I , I , I 've knocked on the head . |