Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of them opened up with a chopper . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 13 | Between them they came up with a pile of notes and coins . |
| 14 | Er , however erm because of the concern about er the overall cost of the programme and the production cost in nineteen ninety two , we required er the companies to undertake studies into ways of reducing the programme cost and it was as a result of those studies , that they came up with a list of potential savings er which in the U K case er could knock fourteen percent off the price that they had quoted in April ninety two . |
| 15 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |
| 16 | They were then left with a hole to fill but they came up with a rider who not only won at Kirkistown but also showed a lot of talent . |
| 17 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 18 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 19 | Legend has it that the flowers turned red , with the shape of a cross in the centre , when they sprang up after a battle . |
| 20 | The vehicles were fired upon by two men in civilian clothes as they pulled up to a T-junction . |
| 21 | On the fourth evening of their waterborne journey they tied up at a place which had thickets of hazel and birch growing near the water . |
| 22 | They tied up in a backwater under a sky black as old blood , and walked along a pontoon to the apron of an enormous dock . |
| 23 | The next day they lay up in a cave and managed to distil a small quantity of water which tasted vile . |
| 24 | They went up in a paternoster lift which cranked regularly past its otherwise vacant portals . |