Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lacewing 's ears are at the base of each forewing , and cause the wings to fold whenever they pick up the bats ' echolocating sounds . |
| 2 | But , in addition , the muscles and tendons have a mechanism whereby they join up with whatever element is next to them . |
| 3 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 4 | In terms of size in humans , some differences between individuals will not be caused by differences in their genes at all , but by differences in how they grew up , how much they ate and so on ; other differences will be genetic . |
| 5 | Tomorrow we 'll test the strings we 've made , and see how they measure up against the old ones for reliability . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That 's how they stay up . |
| 8 | I mean , I do n't how they put up with each other . |
| 9 | Having done Mathematics on college I have absolutely no idea how they come up with their ‘ current ratings ’ . |
| 10 | How they line up today |
| 11 | That is , going through various categories — education , qualifications , experience , etc. , and seeing how they match up with the picture of the ideal candidate which you built up . |
| 12 | The starting point for planning your presentation should be recognition of the particular needs of your audience , along with your own needs and an analysis of how they match up . |
| 13 | The seven functional categories presented in Figure 7.5 have been derived empirically from classroom observations and for this reason it is not clear how they match up with Halliday 's interpersonal , ideational and textual functions ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 14 | Most have replied and I have been able to draft a progress report which enables you to see what stage your councils have reached and how they match up to progress in other councils . |
| 15 | The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it . |
| 16 | Used to get deliveries of it for the pigs that 's how they started up . |
| 17 | And gives feedback on how they turned up and |
| 18 | When those two guys tell him how they caught up with Vecchi , he 'll send 'em round to see you again . |
| 19 | I 'm amazed really how they slipped up in recent matches . |
| 20 | and er the children used to play on the banks of the Nile early in the morning when they got up , there was all sand there . |
| 21 | because that 's when they tallied up . |
| 22 | Andy Thomson and John Price , who between them have dominated the indoor season , move outdoors today when they line up in the five-day Mazda International Singles Championship on Australia 's Gold Coast . |
| 23 | And the next morning when they get up Ruth makes his way into the town , and he goes to where all the , the men sit and they talk , the city gate , and there he he searches out the nearer relative of Ruth 's . |
| 24 | We do n't even have sex on holiday , when from what some of my friends with young children say , that seems to be a time when they catch up . |
| 25 | Mind you when she says erm , when Jane says th she went on holiday with them and her mother and father 's and that 's when they split up . |
| 26 | It was when they grew up that the problems really started . |
| 27 | Erm once you sort of crack the code and get into it , things you 've never heard of when they come up you when you know the system you think , Oh well I know what I know what it means by that . |
| 28 | See see , folk like that , right , see when they come up , get somebody in the , in the playground and they can annoy them they keep bloody doing it ! |
| 29 | I do n't know what the programmers were on when they made up this game , but as Boy 's Own once said about liquid E , if it comes in pints , I 'll have two ! |
| 30 | Green and Maskelyne embarked in the Princess Louisa at Spithead on 9 September 1763 and reached Barbados on 7 November , when they set up an observatory ashore and began observations to settle the longitude of the island . |