Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 2 | Around them grew up short streets of cottages for the workpeople , run up so quickly that they look as though they were planted flat on the surface , without any foundations ; but still there was no congestion . |
| 3 | Unhindered by the country 's lax competition rules , they built up complex webs of cross-shareholdings across an astonishing array of businesses . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough showed their battling qualities as they soaked up strong second-half pressure , and even survived a hotly disputed penalty . |
| 5 | They ran health centres ( offering a mixture of self-help , herbal-ism , old wives ' tales and orthodox medicine ) for women finding to their cost that FAMILY had a stronghold in the dwindling official health services ; they dug up neglected laws on sex equality and fought hopelessly to get them obeyed . |
| 6 | I do not think it can be claimed that they opened up new territory ( writings by Dorothy Heathcote and others in the 1970s were concerned with a level of sophistication in drama teaching which the team seemed not to be able to articulate ) , but in terms of giving some sense of order to the basic functioning of drama the publication deserves to be seen as an important landmark . |
| 7 | Masked and armed , they tied up 52year-old John Bayles and his wife , Elizabeth with a washing line , threatened to burn their home down if they did not reveal where their money was and ransacked the house . |
| 8 | Warmed by Coleman 's sympathy , El-Jorr made a point of introducing him to all the CIs and ‘ mules ’ who arrived at Eurame on their way back and forth along the pipeline , including him in the conversation as they brewed up endless cups of Lebanese coffee . |
| 9 | They took up opposite sides of the room , approaching the concealing curtain with extreme caution , the stubby barrels of the Uzi submachine gun ready to blast anything that leapt forward . |
| 10 | They went up other week did n't they ? |
| 11 | And even as they fouled up long-held theories on what was sexy , they gave a whole new dimension to perceptions of ‘ womanhood ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ After they gave up twelve-furrow work — when the machines came in — they went in for flat-work , wide stetches , even on the heaviest land , of anything up to eighteen yards . |
| 13 | They gave up other rings and wore iron ones in public so that they could be seen to have done their duty , which was what really mattered . |
| 14 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
| 15 | And they set up little communities |