Example sentences of "they be [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of them are holding up signs with names on them . ’ |
| 2 | Now they also , in the wake of this knowledge is the er awareness that they 're going to be interrogated on this , and they 're also sitting up there thinking ‘ what are we going to say ? ’ and indeed that 's another reason for bringing this whole incident to an end , because in a sense they are cooking up alibis and covering their backs . |
| 3 | As the Republic seems set to qualify for America , they are drawing up plans for the biggest television sports blockbuster ever . |
| 4 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 5 | They are to store up treasure in heaven and not on earth . |
| 6 | And in , in a sense , it 's trying to use an economic , it 's , it 's because they 're , they 're setting up child care organizations , people employing child care , it 's , it 's creating an economic development solution to the social problem . |
| 7 | Any debate will persuade them they 're whipping up interest in fiction . |
| 8 | are becoming involved in a peasant movement , are joining peasant associations , that they are , they 're taking up arms , the they 're doing a whole range of things , something quite big is happening here . |
| 9 | Th they 're building up flexitime which |
| 10 | the very , the ones who 've got so much money they could and they 're buying up things as a result of somebody 's misery at a way lower price than it should be bought for |
| 11 | So they went up there and did that , and then , I ca they 've done quite a lot and then they 're going up London tomorrow , I think . |
| 12 | Yes they 're already , they 're signed up members now |
| 13 | I had strap many times , I remember once , on my desk , in my desk , they were lift up desks at the time , and it it and it was teacher was a grand fellow , and I got under my desk , underneath my desk , written underneath it , erm God helps them that helps themselves , but God help them that I catch in this desk . |
| 14 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 15 | Not having worked on a Dalek story since the first one , Cusick was concerned that the creatures were apparently mobile outside their metal cities without any explanation as to how they were picking up power . |
| 16 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 17 | According to their latest results they were eating up backlog last quarter . |
| 18 | A few minutes later they were starting up Heymouth Brae , the road that connected Heymouth with the summit and world beyond . |
| 19 | As they were walking up Buller 's Hill Bourne asked him , ‘ Why do n't you use your car , sir ? ’ |
| 20 | Some hours later , under a dull red sunset , they were creeping up Kentra Bay in the shadow of Beinn Bhreac , past the bay where they 'd stopped too short the first raid , through the narrow channel to the sheltered pool behind . |
| 21 | not very , I did n't think there was very many cars there , most of them were beat up cars were n't they ? , like mini 's and things |