Example sentences of "they [vb base] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |
| 2 | She therefore deduced that crude anthropomorphism is something which children are taught , not necessarily intentionally , in fact probably not intentionally at all , but it is something which they pick up from the comments which they hear and the deductions which they make . |
| 3 | Allow your children to see your own grief so that they grow up with the idea that it is a natural reaction to an unhappy situation . |
| 4 | Some nothing can spoil , and they grow up into the nicest young people you can imagine . ’ |
| 5 | In the case of policemen at Easton , this sport is situationally constrained by the common-sense knowledge they build up of the court room setting and its players . |
| 6 | The abnormal proteins produced by these degenerative diseases are relatively indigestible , so they build up in the lysosome . |
| 7 | In fact , these advisory councils neither have the strength conferred by expert knowledge , nor the experience of full-time work in the field , nor the responsibility conferred by direct election , but they cover up for the assumed need for some outside , popular supervision of these administrative agencies . |
| 8 | The males are larger than the females and have modified tail feathers ( left ) and enlarged white oesophageal sacs which they puff up during the ‘ strut ’ display ( right ) . |
| 9 | The trouble is that it I know , I say I 'm going on about have n't got a copper and everything , then they walk up to the bar and pull out a great wad of notes |
| 10 | Yes , c or another sign that they put up by the side of the road is was you passing this spot this time last week did you see anything . |
| 11 | It 's just a bit unfortunate in my opinion , what they put up in the place . |
| 12 | As the rest of the royals head to Balmoral tomorrow morning , Diana will pick up ten-year-old William and Harry , eight , when they break up for the Christmas holidays from Ludgrove school in Wokingham . |
| 13 | There was little need to hurry over breakfast , because even by nine o'clock there is barely enough light to see fine details , but shortly after nine the first starlings arrive for their morning meal , shoving and squabbling as they line up on the washing line to watch for the first human activity . |
| 14 | Andy Thomson and John Price , who between them have dominated the indoor season , move outdoors today when they line up in the five-day Mazda International Singles Championship on Australia 's Gold Coast . |
| 15 | That is , going through various categories — education , qualifications , experience , etc. , and seeing how they match up with the picture of the ideal candidate which you built up . |
| 16 | During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years . |
| 17 | In the same way they look up into the night sky to see the stars and feel the awe and wonder of the infinite worlds with their infinite distances into which may be submerged all our preoccupations as if we had washed our souls in the oceans of space . |
| 18 | They look up to the English players and try to copy them as they feel that is the right way to behave . |
| 19 | They pop up in the commercials on the TV screen , on the usherette 's tray at the cinema , in every other shop window . |
| 20 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 21 | DUNCAN FERGUSON and Scott Booth will this afternoon get the opportunity to justify Craig Brown 's opinion that they are full internationalists of the future when they team up for the first time in Scotland 's Under-21 side . |
| 22 | No details yet ( although a possible game against Italy has been mooted ) however , and it seems the national side may not have an engagement before they square up to the World Champions in November — gross score from the last two encounters being Wales 9 Australia 101 . |
| 23 | They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden . |
| 24 | In the latter , agents are organizationally rewarded by how well they measure up to the relatively concrete criteria provided by the enforcement process . |
| 25 | Tomorrow we 'll test the strings we 've made , and see how they measure up against the old ones for reliability . |
| 26 | As has been said , Sam and Frodo experience it as thinking for a moment they have died and gone to Heaven , when they wake up on the field of Cormallen . |
| 27 | Form the moment they wake up until the time they go to bed , whether they are playing with friends or at school , their minds and bodies are always active . |
| 28 | A common method for collecting dream reports is to ask people to keep dream diaries — to write down , as soon as they wake up in the morning , any dreams that they can remember . |
| 29 | Er and things like sort of er midday and a late evening er usually fine , and then you have y quite a lot of asthmatics say they wake up in the night , somewhere between two to five . |
| 30 | I read in that book in the library I told you about that the people who have it , the AIDS sufferers , they wake up in the morning soaking . |