Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 3 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 4 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 7 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 8 | She was home but , like him , an exile : together they made up a little principality but it was inside the great metropolis . |
| 9 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 12 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 18 | They read up the transport laws at university and all that transport and everything . |
| 19 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The two laughed , but they loosened up a little . |
| 22 | Between them they built up a dense network of services , institutions and training and campaign centres with inevitable duplications and therefore the constant need for co-ordination . |
| 23 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 24 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
| 25 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They drew up a detailed proposal and submitted it to the Basic Energy Research Programme of the DOE ( Department of Energy ) in Washington DC , which has it dated ‘ 23 August ’ . |
| 28 | They drew up a UN resolution agreeing to use force if needed . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |