Example sentences of "they [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you like you can sign all it says is erm it just it 's just telling you what it is and saying that you do n't mind them typing up the words form this . |
| 2 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 3 | That 's where they should be , but we can see them lurking up the top there there 's |
| 4 | So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in . |
| 5 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 6 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
| 8 | Soon Alejandro was venting his hangover on all the staff , yelling at them to tidy up the place and all the ponies . |
| 9 | This also encourages them to chase up the referees . |
| 10 | you know , below the shadow of both the next two properties , we shall , we shall , you know , just have a brick wall , and if they they just shifted the garage to one end and as far as I 'm concerned it 's an excuse for them to put up the power , that is , |
| 11 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
| 12 | Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages . |
| 13 | Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like |
| 14 | , but then , when you come to the lunatic fringe then supervisor 's will cut an awful lot of corners to prevent them busting up the office or punching somebody in the nose , a real , I do n't mean people who are just stroppy , I mean the real lunatic . |
| 15 | This is a unique chance for them to retain the use of this line and I urge them to keep up the pressure . |
| 16 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 17 | A victory for the pragmatists may help them to speed up the reforms . |
| 18 | Later , when modern machinery enabled them to speed up the process , the realisation came that twenty-five acres was probably more than enough to cope with , what with the borders , lawns and terraces into the bargain . |
| 19 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 20 | They crept up the back staircase to the third floor , testing each tread for creaks before stepping on it , nightclothes bunched in one hand lest they trip . |
| 21 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 22 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 23 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 24 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 25 | The only certain starting point was that the opera would have a Swiss theme , in common with Cheltenham 's International Music Festival , of which the project was part.That aside , they made up the script as they went along . |
| 26 | About the same time , for whatever reason , that the cops , they stitched up the Weasel — who would almost collapse at fat Phillis 's tap , her grave face and hand upon his shoulder — Anton went for a piss . |
| 27 | They read up the transport laws at university and all that transport and everything . |
| 28 | The next Friday they load up the bus and set off for Oxford . |
| 29 | Ultimate control in a company rests in its members ; they make up the company . |
| 30 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |