Example sentences of "they [vb past] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 3 | " They came up the streets towards the station , crowds of people , young men . |
| 4 | Newport were understrength , but Gloucester were on full power as they piled up the points . |
| 5 | They followed up the cases for 12 months to discover how the accident had affected their general mental state , travel anxiety and their attitude to driving or being a passenger . |
| 6 | When Galvone leapt aboard and seated himself beside his chief Hauser made his unsettling comment before they started up the rotors . |
| 7 | When Maxim hoped he had finished , Lomax glanced at Agnes , then said : ‘ They brought up the Rules of Engagement business , then ? |
| 8 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 9 | Votive offerings include elaborately decorated model robes representing the sacred vestments worn by priestesses when they conjured up the goddesses they served . |
| 10 | They cluttered up the streets in noisy gatherings , swearing at passers-by , spitting on them , and sometimes assaulting and robbing them . |
| 11 | The results of their labours appeared in the party press in 1989 ; they summed up the perspectives of the most strongly reformist section of the social science community . |
| 12 | They travelled up the goods line from Blackburn waited for a clear road at Hellifield Junction , got onto the long drag and worked up to the summit . |
| 13 | Quickly they swept up the pieces and hid them away , wondering how they would replace the plate without being found out . |
| 14 | When they snapped up the fragments of Spain 's Caribbean empire , the Americans took Puerto Rico as a colony and subsidised it lavishly . |