Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 2 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 3 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 4 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 5 | Quickly they swept up the pieces and hid them away , wondering how they would replace the plate without being found out . |
| 6 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 7 | ‘ There was peach cup — that was very good ; and we played guessing games and I won three times and later on they rolled up the carpet — figuratively — we just went out on the terrace and turned on the gramophone and danced . ’ |
| 8 | At 11.15am they gave up the attempt , and as the tide was rising over the reef , decided to seek the help of the fishermen in the lagoon . |
| 9 | And he was shouting back to him , but , and then they went up the stair and they called up the stair and I and I do n't know whether it was an affair , the fella that was screaming but he him a mouthful ! |
| 10 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The , the , the anomaly here this is when they set up the C C T legislation , all the services contracted out had to make a of return that 's a profit in any language and that to me is a commercial decision and should never have been exempted from the very start anyway . |
| 13 | That 's where they set up the umm these things for these |