Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 2 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 3 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 4 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 5 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 6 | The second , and by no means less important , purpose , is that they open up a transmission channel for information from the recipient . |
| 7 | Some use such a sophisticated system that they build up a detailed picture of their surroundings , effectively " seeing " with sound instead of light . |
| 8 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 9 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 10 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 11 | So I , I rang the Power Station people at Norwich and they sent up a team to open it . |
| 12 | Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship . |
| 13 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 14 | " Free ale all round tonight lads ! " he told them , and they put up a cheer of delight . |
| 15 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 16 | Roy Keane , Niall Quinn , Ray Houghton , Steve Staunton and Kevin Moran will all incur a one-match ban if they pick up a second yellow card tomorrow . |
| 17 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 18 | Not only that , but they struck up a partnership which produced thirty championship races in six seasons . |
| 19 | The two laughed , but they loosened up a little . |
| 20 | We knew Malcolm had been really impressed with Hell in New York because they kept up a correspondence . |
| 21 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 22 | Such questions seem both searching and naive , searching because they open up a Pandora 's box of issues about the nature and structure of knowledge , naive because they are not usually asked , and doubtless can not be answered , in quite such a simple way . |
| 23 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 24 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 25 | It 's more than a month since they conjured up a victory . |
| 26 | Hibernian 0 Motherwell 0 HIBS ' prospects of finishing fourth in the Premier Division are fading fast after they served up a dreary scoreless draw against Motherwell before the lowest gate of the season at Easter Road . |
| 27 | At the same time , at Edendale in Gore , Bruce Mackenzie , with the help of old Jan , bought a couple of good horses for his sons Sandy and Stu — ‘ for when they grew up a bit ’ . |
| 28 | The shrewd parent now gets our free starter pack for their son or daughter when they take up a place at Manor Park . |
| 29 | I have seen people deteriorate quickly when they give up a routine , believing that this is the right thing to do . |
| 30 | He said that they behaved like ‘ wild dogs ’ when they broke up a peaceful placard demonstration by schoolchildren , beating them with whips and clubs . |