Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Over the moor they went until , at last , they caught up with the hounds . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Every month they drove up into the hills , their sheet folded neatly in the trunk , their lust , by contrast , scarcely containable . |
| 5 | As they came up to the gates , Aziz sidled up to the little boy with his mop , an ingratiating smile on his face . |
| 6 | They climbed up into the bales . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was a soft double-thump as they piled up on the panels . |
| 9 | They scrambled up through the masses of dead leaves and dripping twigs and into the field beyond . |
| 10 | They ended up down the mines . ’ |