Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 2 | Berta , as usual , tried to keep up with them , and Jean noticed she was becoming breathless . |
| 3 | Collects them and then he started pulling their heads off when he got fed up with them . |
| 4 | The young man came surging up to them , as the only other responsible people left around . |
| 5 | Brown Owl came hurrying up to them . |
| 6 | After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again . |
| 7 | Magnus and the Alsatian , attracted by the noise , came running over and began leaping up at them and barking in wild excitement , their panting mouths leaving clouds in the chill air . |
| 8 | Just when she thought they 'd got away from it , change and disruption had caught up with them again . |
| 9 | Rosheen and Klift had caught up with them . |
| 10 | But life had caught up with them . |
| 11 | Susan had come up to them , and stood still in horror at the sight of her sister apparently embracing a total stranger . |
| 12 | They told him that all had gone well until , between Roxburgh town and the castle , before which they were demonstrating , seeking to decoy Balliol , by chance an English party had come up behind them , presumably having ridden over the Border and by Kelso ford , and they had been trapped . |
| 13 | He had come up behind them : thin , tall and tanned . |
| 14 | I had a terrible time last Friday — your paper sent me proofs to correct the same day so I had to struggle up with them . |
| 15 | Specially if there was cars on the hill and I had to pull up behind them . |
| 16 | An icy distance had grown up between them . |
| 17 | But even after the Equal Opportunities and Sex Discrimination Acts of 1975 , when the legal shackles were cast off , those who had grown up with them continued to tread carefully . |
| 18 | All this is a matter of statistics and arid generalities : but what the transformation of these local heaths meant to those who had grown up near them and upon them , what the change meant in detail , is revealed to us in the poetry of John Clare , who was born in 1793 on the edge of the heath country of northern Northamptonshire . |
| 19 | Laughter seemed to break down some of the barrier of embarrassment that had built up between them and when Carrie lit two candles she handed one to Seb and said , ‘ Good night , Seb . |
| 20 | Maggie looked on this isolation he had built up around them as distinction and strength . |
| 21 | The gulf which had opened up between them was apparent from the weights for the Gallaher Gold Cup : Arkle was set to carry twelve stone seven pounds , Mill House eleven stone five pounds , a difference of sixteen pounds . |
| 22 | A gulf had opened up between them . |
| 23 | Topaz did n't have a chance to reply because Timothy Amsterdam had walked up to them and was staring at the marquis in blank amazement . |
| 24 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
| 25 | His absence had , at any rate , spared her the agony of facing the tight-lipped cynicism of his stares and that irreparable barrier that had sprung up between them in what had seemed like a matter of minutes . |
| 26 | The ground had rushed up before them but they had survived . |
| 27 | It was as if a glass wall had gone up between them . |
| 28 | Somehow , she 'd have to end it before they moved up to the room , or the suite , or whatever Charlie 's contact had lined up for them . |
| 29 | that went out to erm making up argu , you know if you 'd fallen out with somebody you had to make up with them before the bells , and in fact what my granny did was to erm to empty the fire and to relay the fire for the new year |
| 30 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |