Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people finding that the leather handbag they picked up at the school fete was , in fact , plastic would shrug it off if the proceeds of the sale were going to a good cause , ’ said Mr Richards . |
| 2 | At Chemical they went up 61 per cent and at Chase Manhattan by 84 per cent . |
| 3 | The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive , rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment . |
| 4 | As soon as I mentioned an Easter wedding they brought up the Royal . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , it was a lovely house yeah but we wanted to come back to Harlow you see , so we did like , well we always liked Harlow , really the only reason we went to erm er Hatfield was the fact that Harlow Council no way would move us out of that maisonette , we had two boys and we lived upstairs and Gary had all sorts of accidents on those stairs , in fact we all had because they were outside , erm so in the winter they iced up |
| 6 | Well no wonder they go up |
| 7 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 8 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 9 | Cos I mean that 's something because they 're at work they build up with |
| 10 | But anyway , I mean , they er they ended up , instead of paying the club a sponsorship they ended up paying him , you know , like erm |
| 11 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 12 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 13 | What about the young girl they got up here ? young girl 's here . |
| 14 | In return they suck up to him , hanging on to his every word , laughing on cue . |
| 15 | It was probably natural that the community they set up was so convinced of its own religious ideals that it thought toleration was harmful , but it was also natural that the strong-minded people who had committed themselves to this Atlantic crossing were not able to agree among themselves what was the true religion to which they were so committed . |
| 16 | Form the moment they wake up until the time they go to bed , whether they are playing with friends or at school , their minds and bodies are always active . |
| 17 | They were doing in that shop exactly what they intended to do and in all probability , what they intended to do from the moment they got up that morning . |
| 18 | In-built camera mikes are omnidirectional and therefore indiscriminate in the sound they pick up . |
| 19 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 20 | But at the slightest hint of danger they join up instantly and dash away like an immaculately trained line of dancers making their exit . |
| 21 | Their real force can be discerned from the extent to which the problematics they set up have continued to exercise subsequent writers . |
| 22 | Away from the classroom they make up complex games , work on puzzle books and generally succeed in finding their way around their environment . |
| 23 | Erm e e they 're all individual and mine I think , looking back , was erm erm er a light er experience and I mean as I 've said , the the erm er w this telescope they shove up you , er I mean , Chris Patton had the same thing . |
| 24 | Come quarter to nine each evening they split up . |
| 25 | After courtship and copulation they split up again and have no further relations until the next season . |
| 26 | In the process they open up the soil , often extracting mineral salts from great depths . |
| 27 | In turn he made it clear that the directors wanted an opportunity to participate in whatever business they ended up in and that there was a realistic profits incentive . |
| 28 | See the old man was saying when he was doing Salisbury Plain they blew up couple of and a couple of |
| 29 | They 've re-opened an incident room they set up in November when a fourteen year old girl was raped . |
| 30 | ‘ They just stay here twenty-four hours per day talking nothing but the language of their region from the minute they wake up , till the time they go to bed in those tiny cubicles over there . |