Example sentences of "they [vb base] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 2 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 3 | The next Friday they load up the bus and set off for Oxford . |
| 4 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 5 | This tripartite distinction , easy to uphold on the grounds of typography , is complicated , however , by the fact that fragments of the italicized Lord 's Prayer passage find themselves brought in from the right-hand margin to form part of the body of the text when , further truncated , they make up the liturgical stutter of |
| 6 | They make up the rest of their programme by choosing two options from Advanced Performance , All-round Performance , Performance , Analytical Theory , Composition , Studies in Polyphony , Popular Music in Contemporary America , or a Special Topic . |
| 7 | Because women live longer , they make up the majority of the very elderly population requiring care , and they in turn look to their daughters and other female relatives . |
| 8 | They make up the active elements of inflammation , and are concentrated in ‘ lymphoid tissue ’ such as : the tonsils ; the ‘ glands ’ in the groin , armpit and neck ( more properly called lymph nodes ) ; and the spleen which lies next to the stomach in the abdomen , as well as the bone marrow where they are made . |
| 9 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
| 10 | I like the way they splice on their headstocks ( almost invisibly underneath the headstock facing ) but not the way they make up the depth of the heel with a very different-coloured piece of mahogany — although I suppose some people might . |
| 11 | Ultimate control in a company rests in its members ; they make up the company . |
| 12 | Derby paid £800,000 for the England under-21 international with fellow strikers Phil Gee and Ian Ormondroyd moving to Filbert Street as they make up the rest of the deal . |
| 13 | They make up the words themselves , right |
| 14 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 15 | They pick up the infant 's heartbeat , respiration rate , body temperature , and so on . |
| 16 | I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture . |
| 17 | Biological systems tend to normally pick up a particular isomer in most cases , if they pick up the wrong one it will affect , for example the protein chain it will affect , ultimately , its three dimensional structure and therefore , it 's function . |
| 18 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 19 | The lacewing 's ears are at the base of each forewing , and cause the wings to fold whenever they pick up the bats ' echolocating sounds . |
| 20 | They sometimes fancy they pick up the voices of the past , answering their prayers , and after presenting their gifts of flowers and fruit , they come away filled with hope that the great loas have agreed to grant whatever they were being implored to do . |
| 21 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 22 | And when they get the answer they pick up the the tro treasure the treasure . |
| 23 | They pick up the treasure . |
| 24 | So there 's no , even talking if necessary , once they get onto the fire engine , they pick up the receiver then and book-on mobile which tells the Control where they are going , and once at the situation then the conversation is done by , by radio telephone . |
| 25 | and the they pick up the text in that way . |
| 26 | In fact they lick up the nectar by flicking their tongues rapidly into the flower , in the case of hummingbirds as swiftly as thirteen times a second . |
| 27 | ‘ Most include plant extracts which have a stimulating effect on the circulation so they top up the benefits of a massage and boost your blood flow for a little longer . |
| 28 | And they build up the old . |
| 29 | So they warm up the water sometimes , they either blow warm air through or at Stoke Bardolph they whip up the erm sewage with fans which beat air into the water , and the aerobic bacteria digest some of the harmful substances in the sewage . |
| 30 | You know the open topped buses where they go round they hold up the traffic . |