Example sentences of "[pron] they [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that I the last time I was down there and I they opened up the door to go and get some cos they had hundreds in there . |
| 2 | They react to them in that way because automatically some of them do n't come from a background in which they grew up with father figures and another thing is they ca n't live up to the expectations of a lot of black women , so it makes them feel lesser . |
| 3 | Some terebellids live in burrows in the substrate , others build tubes of coral sand which they pick up , piece by piece , using the sticky tentacles . |
| 4 | She therefore deduced that crude anthropomorphism is something which children are taught , not necessarily intentionally , in fact probably not intentionally at all , but it is something which they pick up from the comments which they hear and the deductions which they make . |
| 5 | The extreme nature of the damage seen in the diurnal raptors is matched to a considerable degree in some of the owls , and both approach the degree of damage done by mammalian carnivores ( Fig. 3.4 ) , which have the added advantage of crushing teeth by which they break up their prey before ingestion ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | My parents , children of the Depression , had a credit account at the city 's major department store which they kept up to date every month . |
| 7 | The males are larger than the females and have modified tail feathers ( left ) and enlarged white oesophageal sacs which they puff up during the ‘ strut ’ display ( right ) . |
| 8 | Part of his admiration for the Mallorys derived from the cheerful , uncomplaining way in which they put up with discomforts and performed small acts of self-denial . |
| 9 | Children are not always concerned with the size of clothes in which they dress up and the teacher would not intrude in any imaginative role play through an inappropriate concern for mathematics . |
| 10 | The National Children 's Bureau 's parent education and support project identified a number of trends affecting parents in the 1980s ; for example , the pressure on parents as a result of our increasing knowledge of child development and society 's high expectations of the parental role ; the tendency for professionals to undermine parents ' self-confidence with their expertise ; the isolation felt by many parents with young children ; the need for information and knowledge , for social and practice skills , and for self-awareness and understanding of how their values affect the way in which they bring up their children ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | Moving on now to some of the other facilities and controls to be found on camcorders , there are one or two which deserve a mention here because of the way in which they speed up and simplify their operation . |
| 12 | It is one of the many ironies in our provision for old people that we offer the fit elderly cheap transport ( which they take up enthusiastically to visit their relatives ) but make no provision to enable the relatives of the frail housebound to visit them . |
| 13 | What distinguishes them from secondary ( and tertiary ) qualities is that they are those features which corpuscles need to have in order to account for all the qualities ( primary , secondary , and tertiary ) of the substances which they make up . |
| 14 | So a Pacific as defined by such minds might fall within the appropriate longitudes and latitudes , but it would be riddled with holes , a discontinuous mess , a collection of unconnected pieces of sea and land established principally to prove an argument about an entity of which they make up only a fraction . |
| 15 | Nearby , little boys were playing with brightly coloured diamond-shaped kites which they flew up into the warm evening breeze . |
| 16 | Instead , the Greeks embarked on an argument about the name of the place in the course of which they cosied up to Serbia ( which is the chief danger to the peaceful , democratic Balkans they want ) and bullied Macedonia ( which they need as a buffer between themselves and Serbia ) . |
| 17 | The treaty which they drew up dealt specifically with those leudes who had transferred from one king to the other . |
| 18 | The very presence of the media also tends to alter the relationships between the political and social institutions which they link up . |
| 19 | The extremity of these awful judgements against the moral deterioration of the British people , and the enormous vision of chaos and disorder which they conjure up , suggest the need for a cautious organisation of our thought and feeling as we approach these matters . |
| 20 | The extremity of these awful judgements against the moral deterioration of the British people , and the enormous vision of chaos and disorder which they conjure up , suggest the need for a cautious organisation of our thought and feeling as we approach these matters . |
| 21 | They made caches on their way out which they picked up as they returned . |
| 22 | When the men I engaged were finding you they turned up information about that too . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'll be very careful who they let up there , I 'm sure . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's something they make up , Gurder . |
| 25 | Fear is something they pick up from us adults . |
| 26 | There have been six additional babies added to their number and two new grandmothers ( Is it something they drink up there ? ) . |
| 27 | If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard . |
| 28 | Arrowing into the sky , blasting the thin air behind him into a long trail of ionized particles , cracking the air and land below with the plane 's supersonic footprint , outflying anything or anybody they sent up in his wake . |
| 29 | But there were five of them there one day in the porch and when they saw me they gathered up their bottles and began to go , except one . |
| 30 | 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 ? |