Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colours wo n't be seen again and they may end up in a museum . ’ |
| 2 | Hampshire think they may lose up to a quarter of their membership when Dean Park goes after this season . |
| 3 | Relatively unimportant as these smaller losses may seem compared with the main one , together they may add up to a total picture of her life which she feels has been shattered overnight by a single blow . |
| 4 | They may turn up in a show of force in the Market Square . ’ |
| 5 | So they 're going to finish u they should finish up with a quarter so again this sharing sometimes it works okay and we just get a normal counting number . |
| 6 | However many you get , and however long they work , there 's no guarantee they 'll come up with a solution at the end . |
| 7 | stake in National Power or PowerGen to bring pressure to bear on those companies to reduce the development of gas-fired stations , they might end up in a United Kingdom court for breaking United Kingdom company law . |
| 8 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 9 | Results will be given as quickly as possible , but some experts fear they could take up to a month if demand is high . |
| 10 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |
| 11 | The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance . |
| 12 | I had no doubt they 'd turn up within a short time , so I went off duty . |
| 13 | In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down . |
| 14 | ’ It 's not as if they would add up to a great sum . ’ |
| 15 | They will grow up in a world of many hostile enemies and one or two protective parents . |
| 16 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 17 | On a high-rating Sunday , they will draw up to a third of the population of Britain . |
| 18 | so I said well it cost us just so many weeks though , I 've put it in again , I 've , I 'm sending it back today in the hope that they will come up with a decision in the next week , cos usually once they 've got the information they 'll write back say within ten days yes or no |
| 19 | But they will come up against a different side this time . ’ |
| 20 | Now , obviously if it is a erm an old vehicle then obviously the cover is restricted , but normally if it 's below five years or sixty thousand they can obtain up to a thousand pound parts and labour . |