Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was home but , like him , an exile : together they made up a little principality but it was inside the great metropolis . |
| 2 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 3 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 6 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 7 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 8 | Between them they built up a dense network of services , institutions and training and campaign centres with inevitable duplications and therefore the constant need for co-ordination . |
| 9 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
| 10 | They drew up a detailed proposal and submitted it to the Basic Energy Research Programme of the DOE ( Department of Energy ) in Washington DC , which has it dated ‘ 23 August ’ . |
| 11 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 12 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 13 | They dug up an old catalogue reference to it : it seems to be that honest banking practice and churchgoing come to the same thing ungodly Marxism leads to phoney exchange rates . ’ |
| 14 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They turned up the next street . |
| 18 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 19 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 20 | They walked up a grand staircase , first the minder , then Sylvie , then Alexei . |
| 21 | They walked up the wide stone steps and into a small reception area . |
| 22 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They walked up the steep cliff path and checked the life-saving equipment and the box of emergency supplies . |
| 25 | George was frowning in thought as they clattered up the prison-like stone steps to his set . |
| 26 | He said that they behaved like ‘ wild dogs ’ when they broke up a peaceful placard demonstration by schoolchildren , beating them with whips and clubs . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I talked to Edna this week , ’ he began , as they started up a steep incline to the north of the city . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |