Example sentences of "they [verb] up the " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
| 4 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 7 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As they rumble up the steep slopes , they unfold a gradually widening panorama of countryside , mountain and forest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 13 | They read up the transport laws at university and all that transport and everything . |
| 14 | The next Friday they load up the bus and set off for Oxford . |
| 15 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ultimate control in a company rests in its members ; they make up the company . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They make up the words themselves , right |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They pick up the infant 's heartbeat , respiration rate , body temperature , and so on . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 30 | 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 . |