Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beauty is often the object of envy by a plain person , yet people whose prettiness as children captivated the adults around them may grow up with a severe disadvantage . |
| 2 | If there 's insufficient space for the army of fans , many of them might end up on the beaches , which the Italian police have expressly forbidden . |
| 3 | It probably wo n't get us very far , but you never know , one of them might come up with something . ’ |
| 4 | There was a darkness , a sinister menace clinging to some of them , as if simply to touch them might call up dreadful visions and evil forces . |
| 5 | sometimes come to Glasgow and either of them could go up to Stirling |
| 6 | Any of them could add up to ten ! |
| 7 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 8 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 9 | In solos you often find them used to thicken up and to add depth to single note lines ; in rhythm parts they are commonly used instead of large chord voicings to lighten up parts . |
| 10 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 11 | ‘ She used to make them run round getting things for her not my father ; he used to make her get things for him but a lot of them would run up and get her cardigan for her . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 13 | They may land up building the centre outside Europe — in Silicon Valley or Tokyo . |
| 14 | In fact , they may split up , probably owing the agent money . |
| 15 | We are estimating as best we can , these figures will change , and indeed they are changing as we try to move towards a more detailed purchasing plan with the health authority , to take in the changes , they may go up , they may go down . |
| 16 | They may build up to several hundred after arrival in September/October . |
| 17 | Their specialized working is recognized as creating staff development problems and it is agreed that they may devote up to fifteen per cent of their time to work with other client groups ; in addition they take part in a duty rota , and thus handle the full range of initial enquiries . |
| 18 | As a rule the victim is an insect , but certain large centipedes — and they may measure up to 30 cm ( 12 in ) long — have been seen to capture toads and mice . |
| 19 | However , people often take umbrage and start disagreeing or , if you persist with difficulties , they may give up and go and find someone more positive to talk to . |
| 20 | They may give up and try to avoid asking the child anything or feel angry before they even start to ask the child . |
| 21 | there are so many to think , obviously , at some point that they may cover up so again , that 's where it 's designed the |
| 22 | The colours wo n't be seen again and they may end up in a museum . ’ |
| 23 | The experience of falling in love is frequently the first intimation for two people that they may end up married to each other . |
| 24 | It 's even possible that they may end up bringing all forty-one casualties on the UN 's list . |
| 25 | For the soap stars from Oz who are topping the bill in Dick Whittington at the Empire Theatre , Liverpool , this Christmas revealed that they may end up settling in Britain . |
| 26 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 27 | It 's worth considering three different kinds of freedom , for , put together , they may conjure up something of the stridency of the period . |
| 28 | Our main concern is with linear polymers and the ordered or semi-ordered structures which they may take up in solution , in the melt or in the solid state . |
| 29 | Once The Stage covered all finals productions from the drama schools , but now they may write up a play perhaps once a year . |
| 30 | They may live up to their income . |