Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nearby , little boys were playing with brightly coloured diamond-shaped kites which they flew up into the warm evening breeze . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The treaty which they drew up dealt specifically with those leudes who had transferred from one king to the other . |
| 17 | The very presence of the media also tends to alter the relationships between the political and social institutions which they link up . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | They made caches on their way out which they picked up as they returned . |
| 21 | Since the characters never come to life , it is difficult to care what they get up to , in or out of bed . |
| 22 | A list of only the more common villains and what they get up to reads like a catalogue of horrors enough to intimidate anyone and put them off rose-growing for all time . |
| 23 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 24 | At least try to keep an eye on what they get up to , he 'd told his inspector , and then made some vague and undefined promise about arranging a relief . |
| 25 | ‘ Would you like to live next door to a Muslim school , ’ he said , ‘ considering what they get up to ? ’ |
| 26 | without protest from a parent , without a protest from a hunter without a protest from er a anyone else , that is a shame , because I tell you what , if you go drag hunting , you can keep the jobs the people are still going to have to shoe the horses traders and people like that are still going to have to produce the carriages to take the horses with them and the only people job jobs are in jeopardy are not the kennel staff it 's the terrier men and to be quite honest , ladies and gentlemen , it 's the terrier men who have actually ruined your sport , cos of what they get up to in nineteen ninety three is a disgust and at the end of the day your P R has been absolutely wrong and I hope this afternoon that Conservatives and Liberals can join with us and I 've got to thank a certain Liberal because he 's he 's put his head on the block on several occasions on this when we stood on the platform as individuals , not as politicians , as individuals on this and I think that this afternoon we 've got a way forward , we can say to the hunt , come and talk you change , we 'll give you access . |
| 27 | God knows what they get up to in there . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm interested in being part of a subversive band of people who live or die by what they put up in front of an audience . |
| 29 | It 's just a bit unfortunate in my opinion , what they put up in the place . |
| 30 | what they use up the school a proper computers , the screens and printouts and mouses and |