Example sentences of "and they [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 3 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 4 | So I , I rang the Power Station people at Norwich and they sent up a team to open it . |
| 5 | Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 8 | They are n't cheap to buy or send , and they clutter up the house . |
| 9 | " Free ale all round tonight lads ! " he told them , and they put up a cheer of delight . |
| 10 | And they put up the flats , and I think I 'm right there , is about seven hundred dwellings . |
| 11 | With the old snow and they go up the the hills up there and er go sledding and er they find it very enjoyable actually . |
| 12 | They 're doing it there , and they go up the way . |
| 13 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 14 | Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then it was gone , and they laboured up the slope with me , trussed and helpless . |
| 18 | He caught HIV from a casual encounter , did n't realise and they patched up the row . |
| 19 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 20 | And they build up the old . |
| 21 | Thick slabs of bacon sizzled on a pan that sat by the fire , and they mopped up the fat with grainy bread , washing it down with spring water . |