Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] up [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And er and it all and you used to when our Queen 's grandfather was crowned king in nineteen hundred and ten , ooh they trimmed it up beautiful . |
2 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
3 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
4 | They thought it up all by themselves ! ’ |
5 | Rushing to buy the dollar ( mainly by selling D-marks ) to cover their dollar loans , they pushed it up four pfennigs within an hour . |