Example sentences of "they [verb] up in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various decay products in the uranium chain are not present as they are not soluble in water , but they build up in a defined way , according to the decay rates of the individual isotopes in the chain . |
| 2 | They linked up in a silent demonstration of support for the school which is threatened with closure . |
| 3 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 4 | In kiddies ' adventure stories they always wonder Where am I ? when they wake up in a strange place . |
| 5 | They tied up in a backwater under a sky black as old blood , and walked along a pontoon to the apron of an enormous dock . |
| 6 | The next day they lay up in a cave and managed to distil a small quantity of water which tasted vile . |
| 7 | The approach of the two men to each other is conducted like a ritual , a crucial moment of which comes when they go up in a plane together for the first time . |
| 8 | They went up in a paternoster lift which cranked regularly past its otherwise vacant portals . |