Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this is the case the churches can ask to provide their material to add to the pack , and then ensure that they follow up with a personal call . |
| 2 | Sometimes the skilled were actually a species of sub-contractor , paid by output , who hired their unskilled assistants at a flat time-wage and saw to it that they kept up the pace . |
| 3 | It has been said that they show up as a striking pair with powers of × 12 or more . |
| 4 | Beneficial insects such as ladybirds , horseflies and lacewings are encouraged , not killed off , so that they eat up harmful aphids . |
| 5 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 6 | It is recommended that their training stretches over a period of about 15 months from the time that they take up their post . |
| 7 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Scott clearly believes that the upper classes have a disproportionate amount of power given the tiny percentage of the population that they make up . |
| 9 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 10 | Oh right , I see when you said that I thought he was going to an army regiment that they put up in Gloucester |
| 11 | Yes , c or another sign that they put up by the side of the road is was you passing this spot this time last week did you see anything . |
| 12 | saying of all , all the things that they get up to you know , cutting using a stolen car |
| 13 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 14 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 15 | Well I think he can go through the small claims court for five hundred but I suppose six hundred was just over , it 's probably something very crafty that they thought up between them , this pair ! |
| 16 | Like the physicalist attacks on the privacy of subjective experience , these attacks on intellect are self-defeating , in that they end up denying the very realities they are trying to explain . |
| 17 | Consensus politics is the game of the mealy-mouthed who are so busy having ‘ dialogue ’ with everything that moves that they end up talking a language only they understand , an ecclesiastical esperanto which is alien to the outsider . |
| 18 | They admit that they get pissed off with bad gigs , not getting enough sleep and tour vans breaking down so often that they end up ‘ losing it ’ and crawling over the banks of motorways looking for crisp packets . |
| 19 | A Many mothers find that they end up breastfeeding for longer than they had intended . |
| 20 | Many poor countries are so deeply in hock that they end up borrowing just to pay interest on their initial debts : the poorest people of the world are slaves to the banks . ’ |
| 21 | She argues that it enables speakers to produce language in a more efficient way , so that they use up less mental energy , and speak more fluently — perhaps even more emphatically and persuasively . |
| 22 | You will revise three questions , perhaps one developmental , two psychology or something like that and you will hope that they come up . |
| 23 | I think also , the people of Wiltshire will be glad that it us here setting the budget , and therefore the precept and their council tax next year , and something that people will be looking at is their council tax bills , and noting that they go up by six point three percent , or are proposed to , with the provisional assets aim which is set by the government . |
| 24 | Or is it an opportunity for you to be assertive — to go back to the shop , and request that they cash up and return your fiver ? |
| 25 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 26 | It is true that they set up the great caring institutions for the poor , the handicapped and the sick — forerunners of the welfare state . |
| 27 | And 32% said that they set up because they saw ‘ an opportunity too good to miss ’ , compared with only 25% of men . |
| 28 | In addition to jobs , the measurable benefits of economic TNPs include the exports due to foreign firms , and the backward linkages that they set up in the host economy , that is the locally produced goods and services they purchase , either from existing firms or from firms established primarily to supply the TNCs . |
| 29 | Mine become so tame that they climb up the inside of the wire mesh when I approach the hutch and are clearly pleased to see me . |
| 30 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |