Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They intend to keep up the pressure , because I understand that the player can be lured to Old Trafford . |
| 2 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 3 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 4 | He did n't know why he kept them really , except that they helped to make up the number on the shelves . |
| 5 | Only they 'd blocked up the way in , like , and you could only get in through … |
| 6 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 7 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 8 | She did not see much of Florence as they roared through it in the jeep , just a muddled impression of large buildings and a broad dark green river , but as they began to drive up the steep , swooping hill to Fiesole , David 's friend said : |
| 9 | That is to say , they attempt to follow up the best scoring hypothesis depth-first and back-track to earlier interpretations only if the current interpretation appears to be failing . |
| 10 | Phillips agrees and admits that when they did tighten up the protocols according to suggestions from Randi the effects could not be obtained . |
| 11 | When they did make up the T-shirts — as I backed down and did the separations — they got busted for sedition , which was an obscure act of whenever . |
| 12 | And erm , and then on the Sunday morning , it was the local tradespeople erm who were taking down the Christmas trees and things , they had to clear up , they did n't have to but they did clear up the mess , it was a disgrace . |
| 13 | Camcorder microphones are contrary devices : sometimes they fail to pick up the sounds that they should , and sometimes they hear things that they should n't . |
| 14 | They , you know , at the back of us they 've blocked up the fences but I do n't know whether she 's got it right , I do n't know . |
| 15 | no , you need n't , need n't take those you got out last Friday , its the earlier one 's of which will be due next week I 'm sure cos they 've put up the prices now , its about ten P every day you have them out . |
| 16 | as we can cos of the cost side erm I 'm not happy about the way they 've drawn up the writ because it does n't say precisely wh it does n't say what that invoice says it 's only |
| 17 | It is being attacked daily by that real group of parasites , the Tory Party , the Tories will no doubt bring in workfare just as soon as they 've softened up the wider public with their slavish friends in the media . |
| 18 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 19 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 20 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 21 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 22 | He said they had gone up the Rest and Be Thankful and he had noticed a red van parked in a lay-by which had flashed its lights as they passed . |
| 23 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |
| 24 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |
| 25 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 26 | They were so poor that they had to grind up the bark of trees to make flour for their bread . |
| 27 | By the time they had eaten up the crumbs they had forgotten the way out and in their hunger ate the insulation from the wiring . |
| 28 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 29 | Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house . |
| 30 | Wexford certainly was n't going to embark on a sabbath day 's journey to Sewingbury , and now they had mucked up the Kingsbrook Road with those flats , there was no longer any point in going there . |