Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | They been held up by all the traffic and they ca n't get through . |
| 2 | They are catching up on Daedalus and he will have to go into strict training for a swifter sprint . |
| 3 | It is estimated that by the end of the century only about half of all British children will experience conventional family lives — parents married at the time they are born and continuing married until they are grown up ( Kiernan & Wicks , 1990 ) |
| 4 | Peter and Paul hope that by the time they are grown up , the doctors will know more about HC and how to stop it . |
| 5 | I think one of my main fears has been the children moving away now that they are grown up . |
| 6 | They are grown up , you know . |
| 7 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 8 | Homes with large impersonal reception areas are better for orientation if they are broken up into smaller areas divided from each other . |
| 9 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 10 | The recessed planes are used in places , but more often they are broken up by bold three-quarterings and massings which give a quite different sense of the third dimension . |
| 11 | If they are broken up , turn them into a fish paste . |
| 12 | They are queueing up to offer properties to local authorities , according to Hal Pawson of the London Research Centre . |
| 13 | They are speaking up for themselves and expecting , rightly , that they will be listened to by staff and that their opinions will have the same validity as those of the next person . |
| 14 | Both require frequent use of the gearbox if they are to live up to expectations . |
| 15 | As a result of the Housing Act 1988 and the introduction of shorthold tenancies , we are witnessing rapid growth in the number of shorthold and assured tenancies being let by private landlords — so much so , that at last they are taking up the slack created by the number of secure tenancies . |
| 16 | I despise the stupidity of those painters who defended the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to its new air-conditioned penthouse because , in setting such a precedent , they are passing up the opportunity of bequeathing their own works to the Prado . |
| 17 | I 've no specific information but I suspect that they are cooking up something big and the Romanians do n't like it . |
| 18 | Now they also , in the wake of this knowledge is the er awareness that they 're going to be interrogated on this , and they 're also sitting up there thinking ‘ what are we going to say ? ’ and indeed that 's another reason for bringing this whole incident to an end , because in a sense they are cooking up alibis and covering their backs . |
| 19 | These lumps can become somewhat rounded through rolling and they are piled up on top of each other to create pillow lava . |
| 20 | Instead , they are bound up in the replication of previously set standards and routines which may actually frustrate the straightforward goal of simply getting housework done . |
| 21 | ( i ) In the case of visual and other perception , they are bound up with ordinary things-cups , rooms , and landscapes . |
| 22 | How they are bound up is the philosophical problem of perception , into which we shall not enter . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'd be amazed how many people live in this region because they are fed up with the rat-race , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Maybe they are fed up of being seen as this natural type of band . |
| 25 | Is it any wonder that I now plead with my right hon. and learned Friend to intervene on behalf of pupils and parents who wish to move their children over the border to Staffordshire because they are fed up with their own high-spending council and they want that council to take responsibility ? |
| 26 | Even they are fed up with his moods . ’ |
| 27 | Further analysis of the above five steps could be conducted ( for instance , it is worth noting that they are made up of ( I ) non-drama — 1 ( 2 ) nun-drama — 1 ( 3 ) drama — 1 ( 4 ) non-drama — 1 ( 5 ) drama activities ) but it is not in the matter of graded steps within a sequence that drama resembles a game : the game element of drama is inherent within each stop . |
| 28 | They are made up of chopped leaves and grass cuttings . |
| 29 | They are made up of four triangular sides , and are splendid tetrahedra . ) |
| 30 | Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict . |