Example sentences of "they [verb] up an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make up an archive of incalculable value . |
| 2 | Ozoloins has a strong musical personality as well as the necessary technique for these works , and together they make up an attractive package if once again ( at less than 59 minutes in total ) a somewhat short-weight one . |
| 3 | They make up an order . |
| 4 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 5 | They dug up an old catalogue reference to it : it seems to be that honest banking practice and churchgoing come to the same thing ungodly Marxism leads to phoney exchange rates . ’ |
| 6 | Green and Maskelyne embarked in the Princess Louisa at Spithead on 9 September 1763 and reached Barbados on 7 November , when they set up an observatory ashore and began observations to settle the longitude of the island . |
| 7 | On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together . |
| 8 | The significant event is the landing of Goodbody 's patrol behind enemy lines in North Africa , where they set up an ‘ advanced-area cricket pitch ’ , for the purpose of ‘ morale ’ and to impress a visiting military VIP as ‘ a small patch of sanity ’ . |
| 9 | The children , their father Jim and other members of the first UK medical expedition to Everest , were on Aonach Mor , near Fort William , yesterday where they set up an imitation base camp for the benefit of the press and potential sponsors . |
| 10 | Instead , they set up an internal task force and produced a ‘ bowdlerised ’ version . |
| 11 | When they got there , they went up an outside flight of stairs , then Julius took a bunch of keys out of his pocket . |