Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The computer can fight on the behalf of both boxers and the outcome is based upon the fighters statistics that they built up during numerous bouts .
2 They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others .
3 Four transports carrying a total of 124 children came from Danzig , travelling by train via Berlin to the Hook where they joined up with other groups waiting to be ferried across to Harwich .
4 They joined up with local environmentalists who were extending a pond at the Victoria Nursing Home , Barton Street .
5 In the Smolensk area as elsewhere , they linked up with agricultural advisers in the effort to make the peasants realize that subsistence farming was a form of self-exploitation , since their energies were dissipated in a multitude of tiring undertakings .
6 They teamed up with other users of the gym at Croxteth Sports Centre to buy a £200 Olympic weight-lifting bar .
7 That was music to their ears as they counted up to twenty-two explosions .
8 I 'm amazed really how they slipped up in recent matches .
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