Example sentences of "they [verb] up [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They end up learning a great deal about themselves and each other . |
| 2 | The mixes are OK , but the whole thing about the Ultras is that their tracks are structured more in the song mode than club fashion , so they end up losing a bit of weight along the way . |
| 3 | Consensus politics is the game of the mealy-mouthed who are so busy having ‘ dialogue ’ with everything that moves that they end up talking a language only they understand , an ecclesiastical esperanto which is alien to the outsider . |
| 4 | If they turn up to discover a human housing estate instead of the expected hole in the ground , it must undoubtedly stress them . |
| 5 | Occupied in their garden on a June day in 1797 , they looked up to see a figure standing in a gateway at the top of the gentle slope one hundred yards from the mansion . |