Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] they up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 2 | She 's just adding them up , she 'll call them out |
| 3 | I mean sort of patting things town , not stirring them up . ’ |
| 4 | And that , you know , not tying them up with endless pettifogging regulations . |
| 5 | There are only minor things erm , Chris suggested changes to the procedures , just tidying them up as we might have expected at this stage really erm . |
| 6 | Many people are not aware of the existence of some of them or of their own eligibility to make a claim , so are not taking them up ; and you may find that you are one of them . |
| 7 | I 'm not putting them up though ! |
| 8 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 9 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 10 | One approach is to impose statutory reserve or cash requirements on banks and all other financial institutions , and then engage in tough open-market operations , possibly backing them up with special deposits ( again applied to all financial institutions ) . |
| 11 | It 's no use taking up extreme reducing diets this week if we end up giving them up next week . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , and would n't it be good to get a structure and … maybe costume , a few props anyway and learn the poems off by heart , not read them , nose buried in a book , dropping them out your looseleaf onto the floor , scrabbling around picking them up again in the wrong order . ’ |
| 13 | They are n't calling them up , surely ? ’ |
| 14 | He ai n't putting them up is he take them down to Helen 's then some lovely decorations we 'll ask him for them Helen . |
| 15 | Mark Tansey , he of the sly sense of humour , has often explored landscapes , sometimes building them up from what appear to be lines of typography . |
| 16 | Even in villages , I known men who 've worked abroad fitting them up in in er Germany and in France and in Italy , one of whom went to night school in Germany to learn the language t to get on better , he was there to receive machines . |
| 17 | You could move these to locations 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 , for conveniently calling them up from a MIDI pedal . |
| 18 | and I had Mike ironing them while I was putting 'em up , I said right stand here and watch me hang this curtain , so I 'm showing him how to iron it , so while I 'm upstairs putting 'em up he 's ironing |
| 19 | They make sure you you know why they do that , so then you can go out and buy another game another one of their games and then this so then just keep on clocking them up yeah , and go out to buy a m more games so you spend more money of their games . |
| 20 | Because , you 're not actually opening them up . |