Example sentences of "and they [verb] up a " 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 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 3 | So I , I rang the Power Station people at Norwich and they sent up a team to open it . |
| 4 | Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " Free ale all round tonight lads ! " he told them , and they put up a cheer of delight . |
| 7 | 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 . |