Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only cover up the ‘ caveman ’ body smells which act as a natural stimulant , says chemist Dr David Kelly . |
| 2 | Young children will pass through a stage when they will believe that row A in the illustration below has the same number as row B because they ‘ look the same ’ ; they apparently take up the same space . |
| 3 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 4 | He was appalled at their habits , saying they just covered up the dirt by placing new rushes over the old , thus covering the dirt and filth which was caused by animals wandering in and out of the houses . |
| 5 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 6 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
| 7 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 8 | They quickly use up the yolk sac and Liquifry should be provided from the moment of hatching so that food is available when required . |
| 9 | Just as they clean up all the trash and litter , they also clean up the earth and the sky , transmogrifying cars , turning tools , parts , weapons , bolts into carbon and iron . |
| 10 | They also smashed up the peasants ' illicit vodka stills . |
| 11 | They implicitly set up the ‘ missing market ’ for the externality . |
| 12 | Laying these aside quietly , they then prised up the thin lead sheathing from round the edges of the glass and gouged out the putty holding the pane in place . |
| 13 | These were manned by guards whose only access to the towers was by way of a single rope which they had to climb in a gymnastic fashion ; they then pulled up the rope and remained in the towers for the rest of the shift . |
| 14 | Viewers were therefore happy with a mixed diet , rather as though , in a public library , they sometimes picked up The Times , sometimes the Daily Mail , sometimes the Sun . |
| 15 | And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things , in creating something that has never yet existed , precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names and little cries in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language . ’ |
| 16 | They never blew up the houses . |