Example sentences of "because they [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew Malcolm had been really impressed with Hell in New York because they kept up a correspondence . |
| 2 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 3 | Such questions seem both searching and naive , searching because they open up a Pandora 's box of issues about the nature and structure of knowledge , naive because they are not usually asked , and doubtless can not be answered , in quite such a simple way . |
| 4 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 5 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |