Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We knew Malcolm had been really impressed with Hell in New York because they kept up a correspondence . |
| 7 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's more than a month since they conjured up a victory . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | The shrewd parent now gets our free starter pack for their son or daughter when they take up a place at Manor Park . |
| 15 | I have seen people deteriorate quickly when they give up a routine , believing that this is the right thing to do . |
| 16 | He said that they behaved like ‘ wild dogs ’ when they broke up a peaceful placard demonstration by schoolchildren , beating them with whips and clubs . |
| 17 | Godfrey always complained about her though they split up a year ago . |
| 18 | KENT went run crazy yesterday as they piled up a 603 for eight — their highest total since 1934 — against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 19 | THE return of both Des Haynes and Angus Fraser had the desired effect on Middlesex 's fortunes during the early weeks of the season as they ran up a sequence of one-day wins . |
| 20 | Instead was a happy medley of Luke laughing , of taking her hand as they ran up a long flight of grey stone steps towards some vague but wonderful journey 's end . |
| 21 | ‘ I talked to Edna this week , ’ he began , as they started up a steep incline to the north of the city . |
| 22 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |