Example sentences of "they [vb past] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 2 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 3 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 4 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 5 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 6 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 7 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 8 | Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations . |
| 9 | They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis 's workshop in what had been the grooms ' quarters . |
| 10 | The mystery deepened when , instead of going seaward at the foot of the hill , they turned up the right bank of the Touques as if making for Deauville . |
| 11 | They turned up the next street . |
| 12 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 13 | They walked up the wide stone steps and into a small reception area . |
| 14 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 15 | But they reached the house , or rather the road below , and when Adamus had paid the driver-no account was mentioned — they walked up the crumbling slope in the shadowed midday light , and came out among the wet green oaks , and the house appeared . |
| 16 | They walked up the steep cliff path and checked the life-saving equipment and the box of emergency supplies . |
| 17 | George was frowning in thought as they clattered up the prison-like stone steps to his set . |
| 18 | Main boomed out to port , genoa to starboard , they ghosted up the smooth waters of the river like a giant white butterfly as the first grey touch of dawn lightened the sky . |
| 19 | The engine of the bus protested bitterly and the close air filled with the heavy smell of petrol as they started up the steep brae . |
| 20 | As soon as I mentioned an Easter wedding they brought up the Royal . ’ |
| 21 | They tried to kill her and her Cabinet , and nearly succeeded , when they blew up the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative Party conference . |
| 22 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 23 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 24 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 25 | They went up the hot , winding back streets behind Des Voeux and ate at the California , a neon nightclub-restaurant . |
| 26 | They went up the curving Georgian staircase to Bragg 's room , and hung their bowlers on the bentwood hat-stand . |
| 27 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 28 | They looked up the spiral stair . |
| 29 | They were a subtle pink , their perfume was wonderful , and , kept in a cup until they fell apart , they lit up the bleak , dark cell . |
| 30 | Oh , a at nineteen forty eight they split up the electric supply and the three was nationalized and erm it , it just went out of the control of the local councils , it was government controlled then and there was a distinct possibility that the transport section would be sold off to private enterprise and the only private enterprise that was capable of taking over then was the Eastern Counties but erm I think the , the erm local council having had the transport under their wing for so many years , fought off that erm feeling and erm they kept with it and er , of course all the accountancy went to the Borough Treasurer and the certain members of clerks from the Borough Treasurers , which was at in those days , er seconded on to transport accounts . |