Example sentences of "they [vb base] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they absconded it , and the dog has n't a hope in hell and also the ones you get for the kids , when you sit in them they sit up like little chairs do n't they ? |
| 2 | These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . |
| 3 | They build up in shallow waters , off the edge of tropical or sub-tropical continents , where the waters are stirred , and light penetrates . |
| 4 | They show up as curved lines on a photographic film . |
| 5 | But even if it is not exactly this scheme , it is certain that any global agreement will have to be supported by a mechanism which allows the developing countries to pollute more while they catch up with developed countries which are simultaneously reducing their emissions . |
| 6 | Glad of the work , they put up with shabby trailers , long hours and sketchy benefits . |
| 7 | Probably these seemingly unintelligent mares were unable to find shelter in such weather when they were young , and now as older horses they put up with such conditions out of habit — a habit that is not conducive to the best health of the horse . |
| 8 | They add up to 1,364 pages . |
| 9 | Such essential measures as library expenditure per student , per capita computing costs , and many other management data , are now available for the first time in published form , so that universities can see at a glance how they measure up to similar institutions . |
| 10 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |
| 11 | They get up to 150 pounds an acre for farming in a more environmentally friendly way . |
| 12 | They just energetically throw the pebbles around , and big pebbles and small pebbles respond differently to this treatment so they end up at different levels of the beach . |
| 13 | What if something like this you know if I give this to Arthur and John and say er they just joined I give them this , this personal development plan , who should it put pressure on should do , yeah cos you should be going up to them and saying well I 'm supposed to have done you know X Y Y and they go ah yeah , and then they go up with these excuses yeah . |
| 14 | They go up to those games |
| 15 | They stock up on financial assets such as government bonds , and the government realizes profits by spending its borrowings on buying commodities . |
| 16 | Sometimes they offer up to two years ' rent free ; in other instances a capital sum changes hands . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard Co unveiled two new colour printers , the DeskJet 1200C and the 1200C/PS , which use laser-printer functionality and plain paper : out now , the 1200C will sell for $1,700 , and the 1200C/PS for $2,400 ; they do up to seven pages per minute and offer 600 by 300 dots-per-inch text print quality . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Computer Corp duly announced its Sparcstation 10 systems last week , claiming they deliver up to ten times the performance of existing systems and feature the lowest-cost multiprocessing RISC server on the market . |
| 19 | They store up to eight fields at a time , and use computer intelligence to average and interpolate the picture information that is added or subtracted . |
| 20 | Some have suggested that there are daily rhythms which mirror those of mental performance but which are not as difficult to measure or as prone to interference , and they come up with old standbys , body temperature and adrenalin . |
| 21 | They spend up to 3,000 hours bringing what look like rusty writeoffs back to pristine condition . |
| 22 | At eleven , they split up into small groups and assembled in the rooms of the lecturers whose courses they had chosen . |
| 23 | Friends ' lives were changing as they split up with old partners , found new ones , bought flats , changed jobs . |