Example sentences of "they be [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd be amazed how many people live in this region because they are fed up with the rat-race , ’ he says . |
| 3 | They are made up of the Polytechnic of Wales ; three national institutions in the shape of the Welsh College of Music and Drama , at Cardiff , and the College of Librarianship of Wales and the Welsh College of Agriculture , both at Aberystwyth ; six colleges or institutions of higher education ; and thirty-six other establishments ( Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 4 | We have a di , a different picture , and we make up erm pictures like you see o on these crime programmes , the videofits of suspects , you 've all seen them where th , you know got the lines between the nose and , and the mouth they are made up of the information that we 've gained from witnesses . |
| 5 | In addition , savers can miss up to six monthly payments over the five years provided they are made up in the months immediately following the five-year term . |
| 6 | But they are unable to process this and obviously that will be different for children at different stages of their development erm younger children being particularly susceptible to the sort of atmosphere around them , and if they are picking up from the adults around them , be that through the media or within the context of their everyday lives , that there is something dangerous and disturbing going on , then they are obviously going to reflect that unease in their behaviour . |
| 7 | Obviously there is not a club atmosphere at Harlequins , and in most other sports they would be fined or disciplined for the unfair competition they are setting up in the league , both from the top and bottom sides . |
| 8 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
| 9 | take the view that erm they are put up by the Council from time to time for various reasons . |
| 10 | The Government 's alternative is to reduce prices in manufacturing from the uncompetitive levels to which they are forced up by the exchange rate , by firing people and depressing the price of labour . |
| 11 | But there are several aspects of this prophetic Spirit that are especially important , and they are taken up in the New Testament . |
| 12 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |
| 13 | Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance . |
| 14 | I had a friend who had one of those ancient slide machines which was used to give light shows , and you could make the slides out of coloured oils and inks and put them together between two sheets of glass and when they 're heated up inside the machine , they went , splat , splat , and made these rather beautiful moving colours . |
| 15 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 16 | It enables your staff to know themselves how well they 're doing their job , and if they 're keeping up to the mark . |
| 17 | They 're coming up for the luggage . ’ |
| 18 | They 're all th round there , round that dahlia they 're coming up in the corner over there , and there 's some here , and I think they 're all coming . |
| 19 | Mm , what gets me is how Creda they 're gon na , they 're , they 're coming up in the pink and |
| 20 | They 're growing up in the village . |
| 21 | And often you forget , and your brain flies off somewhere to do something else , I fancied that bird last night , God the beer 's rough in that bloody hotel , I wonder what that , I wonder how they 're doing up at the depot ? |
| 22 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 23 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 24 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 25 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 26 | When they were riding up in the lift , Damian said , ‘ I think we should go over the minutes together . ’ |
| 27 | There was a great crowd , singing , shouting , all very good-humoured — not , I think , because they were taking the situation lightly but because they were buoyed up by the feeling that here was something quite above ordinary political argument , a clearly defined moral issue on which people could stand up and be counted . |
| 28 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 29 | Though the ice-box would continue to work at sea , run off the battery , the microwave could only be used while they were hooked up to the shore power supply . |
| 30 | When they were walking up through the Grove on her birthday . |