Example sentences of "they [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 2 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
| 3 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 4 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 5 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 6 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 7 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 8 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 9 | They make up the active elements of inflammation , and are concentrated in ‘ lymphoid tissue ’ such as : the tonsils ; the ‘ glands ’ in the groin , armpit and neck ( more properly called lymph nodes ) ; and the spleen which lies next to the stomach in the abdomen , as well as the bone marrow where they are made . |
| 10 | Biological systems tend to normally pick up a particular isomer in most cases , if they pick up the wrong one it will affect , for example the protein chain it will affect , ultimately , its three dimensional structure and therefore , it 's function . |
| 11 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 12 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 13 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 14 | And they build up the old . |
| 15 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 16 | How many more can Crayford accommodate when they put up the house-full signs ? |
| 17 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 18 | They open up the these blast furnaces and the , we 'd all be in the open air and the reflection there used to be quite a reflection in the sky all round there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 21 | The mystery deepened when , instead of going seaward at the foot of the hill , they turned up the right bank of the Touques as if making for Deauville . |
| 22 | They turned up the next street . |
| 23 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 24 | They walked up the wide stone steps and into a small reception area . |
| 25 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 26 | But they reached the house , or rather the road below , and when Adamus had paid the driver-no account was mentioned — they walked up the crumbling slope in the shadowed midday light , and came out among the wet green oaks , and the house appeared . |
| 27 | They walked up the steep cliff path and checked the life-saving equipment and the box of emergency supplies . |
| 28 | George was frowning in thought as they clattered up the prison-like stone steps to his set . |
| 29 | It is true that they set up the great caring institutions for the poor , the handicapped and the sick — forerunners of the welfare state . |
| 30 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |