Example sentences of "they [verb] up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 2 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 3 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 4 | They make up the rest of their programme by choosing two options from Advanced Performance , All-round Performance , Performance , Analytical Theory , Composition , Studies in Polyphony , Popular Music in Contemporary America , or a Special Topic . |
| 5 | Derby paid £800,000 for the England under-21 international with fellow strikers Phil Gee and Ian Ormondroyd moving to Filbert Street as they make up the rest of the deal . |
| 6 | I like the way they splice on their headstocks ( almost invisibly underneath the headstock facing ) but not the way they make up the depth of the heel with a very different-coloured piece of mahogany — although I suppose some people might . |
| 7 | Because women live longer , they make up the majority of the very elderly population requiring care , and they in turn look to their daughters and other female relatives . |
| 8 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 9 | They sometimes fancy they pick up the voices of the past , answering their prayers , and after presenting their gifts of flowers and fruit , they come away filled with hope that the great loas have agreed to grant whatever they were being implored to do . |
| 10 | They weighed up the prospect of knocking on the door and members of the jury , you have to consider in due course whether they got that act right . |
| 11 | ‘ Most include plant extracts which have a stimulating effect on the circulation so they top up the benefits of a massage and boost your blood flow for a little longer . |
| 12 | They break up the flow of a race track and demand a less gung-go , more confined approach . |
| 13 | Mine become so tame that they climb up the inside of the wire mesh when I approach the hutch and are clearly pleased to see me . |
| 14 | The methods we have covered do not represent all of those now being used , but they open up the possibilities of new approaches , some of which should become common tools of primary health care in the decade ahead . |
| 15 | They do n't pop , they do n't break they 're so cool they swim up the streets of Pontefract ! |
| 16 | So many people rush to Minsmere Reserve , the deservedly popular showpiece owned and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ; they tot up the number of species seen on the delectable lagoons and marshes — and forget other habitats in the county which also shelter rather special birds . |
| 17 | They speeded up the spread of electricity until all homes were connected . |
| 18 | When Maxim hoped he had finished , Lomax glanced at Agnes , then said : ‘ They brought up the Rules of Engagement business , then ? |
| 19 | They took up the whole of the street and nothing could move until this sea of humanity had passed by . ’ |
| 20 | However , as time progressed they took up the argument of legislation requirement and professional competence as a form of self-defence and as a means of maintaining their professional standing not only in their own eyes , but in the eyes of other planners , and in the eyes of their fellow colleagues in Kirkwall . |
| 21 | They speed up the circulation of material goods through advertising , which reduces the time between production and consumption . |
| 22 | They speed up the rates of interconversions of compounds that would otherwise proceed too slowly to be useful . |
| 23 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 24 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 25 | The results of their labours appeared in the party press in 1989 ; they summed up the perspectives of the most strongly reformist section of the social science community . |
| 26 | Yeah , well they 're all erm like er they 're really , the batteries that they use , they take up the whole of the boot |
| 27 | When they snapped up the fragments of Spain 's Caribbean empire , the Americans took Puerto Rico as a colony and subsidised it lavishly . |