Example sentences of "[verb] up between the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Chain ownership , built up between the wars by the manoeuvres of the press barons ( mainly seeking economies of scale ) , remained a crucial factor .
2 According to Burnham Beeches superintendent Ian Turney : " Since grazing was stopped , young trees have grown up between the pollards , competing for light , water and nutrients .
3 The duchess , recalling her own upbringing amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters , recognized this , and was gratified by the devotion and closeness that had grown up between the girls .
4 We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other .
5 Another of the benefits of the travelling team system was the camaraderie that was built up between the players , all of whom were effectively competing with each other for Davis Cup recognition .
6 Like lying on one 's back as we did in Spain when we slept out looking up between the fig-branches into the star-corridors , the great seas and oceans of stars .
7 It 's steamed up between the layers is that what you 're looking at .
8 The traditional lobola payments were rarely made and no contract drawn up between the families .
9 Even in an age of permissiveness not every boy — girl encounter ends up between the sheets .
10 Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all .
11 There are two types of corn , the hard variety — which usually develops on the tips or top of the toes — and the soft corn that builds up between the toes .
12 The hot air from the fire passed up between the laths .
13 There is a great consensus building up between the peoples of East and West as to the sort of Europe they want to see .
14 Woolley side-slipped and fell behind it , then climbed and injected a long burst into its belly , searching forwards until he saw the bullets slashing up between the wing-roots .
15 Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers .
16 This results from a failure in the sealing of the unit and causes condensation to build up between the panes of glass .
17 The farmer did not reply for a moment , then he went up between the cows and gently rubbed Blossom 's forehead " Aye , this is the one , Jack . "
18 The Dolls ' House nursery is filled with everything considered essential for this world , and is an excellent reminder of the way in which privileged children grew up between the wars .
19 The whole area out here was paved and small stonecrops and sedums with white and yellow starry flowers grew up between the stones .
20 It ran up between the windows of two rooms used as bedrooms by the plaintiffs , thus allowing anyone using the staircase to see directly into the ground-floor flat .
21 Nevertheless , Sapaudia was divided up between the Burgundians and the native population .
22 What is less clear , however , is how funds derived from such government-financed bodies as the Research Councils should be divided up between the universities and the public sector institutions of higher education .
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