Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They crept up the back staircase to the third floor , testing each tread for creaks before stepping on it , nightclothes bunched in one hand lest they trip . |
| 2 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 3 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 4 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 5 | The only certain starting point was that the opera would have a Swiss theme , in common with Cheltenham 's International Music Festival , of which the project was part.That aside , they made up the script as they went along . |
| 6 | About the same time , for whatever reason , that the cops , they stitched up the Weasel — who would almost collapse at fat Phillis 's tap , her grave face and hand upon his shoulder — Anton went for a piss . |
| 7 | They read up the transport laws at university and all that transport and everything . |
| 8 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 9 | They weighed up the prospect of knocking on the door and members of the jury , you have to consider in due course whether they got that act right . |
| 10 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 11 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 12 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 13 | They drew up a UN resolution agreeing to use force if needed . |
| 14 | It was apparent to me that a great deal more useful information could be derived from the FDR if the single parameter of pitch attitude could be added to the requirements , and I pressed this view very hard with the authorities when they drew up the UK regulations on the subject in 1964 . |
| 15 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 16 | I noted the time they woke up every day , the places they fed , the food they ate , the time of year they made their nests , and so on . |
| 17 | Encountering little resistance , they sailed up the Thames and destroyed some of the most powerful fighting ships of the Royal Navy moored at Chatham docks and towed away some others . |
| 18 | From Sicily they sailed up the coastline to Venice together . |
| 19 | They drove up the ramp from the underground car park at Scotland Yard and out on to Victoria Street at 8.40 p.m . |
| 20 | " They came up the streets towards the station , crowds of people , young men . |
| 21 | Danish invaders found their way to Lough Neagh between AD 849 and AD 1014 but whether they came up the Bann is uncertain . |
| 22 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 23 | They messed up a baton change and failed to finish , creeping from the track with the ribald comments of the crowd in their ears ! |
| 24 | ‘ They messed up the shop , terrible it was . |
| 25 | Mother Bombie asked Evelyn as they trudged up the shingle path towards the girls ' house . |
| 26 | Masklin was just ahead of the other two as they raced up the aisle between the rows of humans , who paid no attention at all to three tiny blurs running between the seats . |
| 27 | they , they started Monday morning , they dug up the concrete they disappeared with the sort of bigger stuff come back in about , |
| 28 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 29 | They opened up a market of huge potential for English manufacturers in the New World . |
| 30 | They opened up a lead of more than two minutes by Huddersfield , but were caught with just under 30 miles left . |