Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] up " in BNC.

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1 It is the police who have to decide whether the unruly pickets or drug users they pick up are prosecuted ; and if the police took every offender to court the legal system would not be able to cope .
2 The various elements or component activities which make up each of the four Marketing Mix categories are interdependent .
3 In the UK , it is Wimpey Homes ’ market researchers or sales managers who come up with a list of alternative suggestions for each new development .
4 TRANSPORT ‘ Did you know that lorry drivers who pick up hitch-hikers have 73 per cent fewer accidents than those who do n't ? ’
5 Their directors , despairing of raising any money from the cooks and porters and pet dogs who made up the bulk of their subscribers , quietly ceased to badger .
6 It may however , be questioned , whether this role should be performed by a mixture of hereditary and life peers who make up the Lords ' membership or , indeed , whether there is an important role here at all .
7 The screen and the ornamental woodwork of pulpit , font lid and choir stalls they chopped up for firewood .
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