Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 2 | His kisses were deep and cherishing and hungry , and it was a long time before they eventually came up for air . |
| 3 | and the Monday , and they eventually turned up on the Tuesday . |
| 4 | We are not amazed at their motivation and intelligence when they eagerly look up at us , willing us to throw the ball or the stick . |
| 5 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 6 | The remainder comes mostly from the countries around the Mediterranean , but what the original almond growers lack in quantity they apparently make up for in quality . |
| 7 | They just turn up with family-sized tins of baked beans , some Ambrosia creamed rice and a sweet German wine box . |
| 8 | It 's so annoying when they just come up to your window whether you want it cleaned or not they just clean it . |
| 9 | They just sit up in their rooms and smoke hash and never speak to each other . |
| 10 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 11 | I think they just sucked up to David , and began to put the boot in really , quite unnecessarily and unfairly . |
| 12 | Yeah but they just comes up to the door and says to her we 're going away now . |
| 13 | In the meantime it 's empty , although they generally turn up at weekends and mess around the place , painting bits and pieces and knocking in nails . |
| 14 | These then were Law 's senior colleagues in the work of opposition and would have presumably occupied the senior posts in a Law government ; they scarcely add up to the image of a party of ruthless businessmen and , if other probable ministers are added to the list — Lords Derby , Curzon , Salisbury and Crawford , together with Finlay and Cave , both lawyers — then it seems even less so . |
| 15 | He and his wife Brooke Hayward were on the verge of divorce — they finally split up in 1969 . |
| 16 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
| 17 | After riding for some time in the dark , they finally caught up with the cart at a toll-gate . |
| 18 | At first they managed with an old Hillman Minx estate , but they soon traded up to a Ford Transit van . |
| 19 | The Kalkadoon did not have words for European artifacts and ideas but they soon came up with new words as the need arose . |
| 20 | He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron . |
| 21 | The individual who 's gon na be assertive is likely to be open and honest or likely to admit things that are not so good at honest those , but they 're not gon na necessarily apologise for those , they 're gon na treat those as statements of fact and they 're certainly gon na try and involve other people and actually say what do you think this , what are some ways forward er but it does n't mean that they 're gon na be walked all over and they still stand up for the things that they firmly believe in . |
| 22 | United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline . |
| 23 | So , if people ca n't get hold of an application form , can they still turn up on the day , I think that 's the final thing is n't it ? |
| 24 | When kept under conditions of constant light and temperature , they still turned up for meals at regular intervals . |
| 25 | That , that 's , that 's more of a , and they 're doing very little to start with , and then they rapidly get up to their top speed , and they level out . |
| 26 | They always turn up in the nets ! |
| 27 | Were n't very clean and er course Ipswich water 's all nice fresh water , they always filled up with fresh water at Ipswich , the Dutch boats which was the we had three boats there , they used to be the Ipswich , Ipswich Progress and Ipswich Pioneer . |
| 28 | When scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of the past they always run up against a brick wall . |
| 29 | After planting they quickly build up into permanent perennial clumps and nothing looks finer in summer than to see them planted in association with a garden pool or other water garden feature . |
| 30 | foot size is a two , they usually end up in a three erm in flat shoes like this for the width I 've got very big feet |