Example sentences of "[verb] up [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now the ring leader Smyth Harper , 16 , has owned up that they invented the story for a laugh . |
| 2 | Second-placed Stockton , meanwhile , can go top of the table if Durham slip up if they beat Horden at Teesdale Park . |
| 3 | Nor with the grumbling of people who did n't want to stand up when they 'd just sat down . |
| 4 | And she was smiling warmly too , her whole face sweet and happy , because it had been a charming sight — Lucenzo bowing with old-world charm over the old lady 's hand , and the softened chocolate of his eyes , which iced up immediately they met Meredith 's , and the gentleness of her expression turned to bewilderment . |
| 5 | It hit me when I phoned up and they said those two had gone . |
| 6 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 7 | This has the great advantage that , from S1 , able pupils can be moved into a more challenging group , while those who find the pace too fast can be given the chance to catch up before they become discouraged . |
| 8 | So , unlike most companies , IBM can guarantee that a new concept is going to reach the entire management population within a year — and IBMers are sufficiently motivated to want to catch up if they hear there is something new coming . |
| 9 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 10 | Yeah , er well if they 're not too careful she 'll of grown up before they realize it , oh she goes on at you oh , like an old woman , she knows everything , she knows more than Judith about what 's going on |
| 11 | The superb choruses , picking up as they do lines from various Crabbe poems , inherit the point-of-view of his editorial stoicism . |
| 12 | When I was young in the Sixties , children either turned up or they did n't . ’ |
| 13 | And when things have turned up and they 've not been quite right he 's known |
| 14 | Now er clay pipes , we used to dredge up and they got dredged up down opposite Pinmill , and they were a long pipe , but cos the , the stem a lot of them had been broken off and wh how they got down there nobody know , I think they used to be like in ballast with the ships , I think . |
| 15 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 16 | But campaigning groups will not give up and they continue to demand conditions that will lead to broader participation . |
| 17 | The irony is that the others sense this but they too cover up that they sense it , and they too cover up their cover up . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's lots o' seats to set up and they want a nice big pulpit built , ’ the Nark continued , beginning to enjoy himself despite the possible danger to their freedom . |
| 19 | I lifted them early because I did n't want to leave them any longer because they were going to get damaged and they were , they were a wet potato when they came up and they 've cooked wet , so I think that the amount of rainfall you have has a lot to do with it . |
| 20 | Her worst fear had been that Jake would show up before they had even left Lomond View . |
| 21 | He says that the dialogue is fun — much of it is made up as they go along ! |
| 22 | Two Royal Navy Sea Kings narrowly escaped being hit when Serb guns opened up as they flew in . |
| 23 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 24 | My one proviso is that at the same time , Hadrian 's Wall should be repaired , extended fully , and provided with one single opening through which all scots at present in the south should be shepherded to the north , whereupon the opening should be smartly bricked up before they have the chance to get back . |
| 25 | It showed up when they developed Friday 's photographs . ’ |
| 26 | He had made Iron Josh lock up before they left — Hardy had told him that on winter Fridays the Jewish sabbath commenced in the afternoon , so no one would be surprised if the store was closed extra early . |
| 27 | So far , the Government have made a large number of verbal commitments to creating the terms and conditions of employment that would enable women to stay in the work force and not give up when they have families . |
| 28 | Yes erm I do n't know if I mentioned you a question properly er right there were young lads in there they be young lads in that lodge do this and they jump up and they make a decision quickly . |
| 29 | Cos all their bedrooms are used up so they have n't got . |
| 30 | The plants die and oxygen is used up as they decompose . |