Example sentences of "they [vb past] up [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles did n't tell Jacqui about their new ally in investigation when they met up that evening to report progress . |
| 2 | They were doing in that shop exactly what they intended to do and in all probability , what they intended to do from the moment they got up that morning . |
| 3 | More Sinhalese Buddhists were hired ; by 1900 they made up more than one-quarter of the force . |
| 4 | Often sleeping four to a bed , they made up this rhyme : |
| 5 | I do n't know what the programmers were on when they made up this game , but as Boy 's Own once said about liquid E , if it comes in pints , I 'll have two ! |
| 6 | They made up half the electorate . |
| 7 | Though the Sinhalese accounted for over two-thirds of Sri Lanka 's inhabitants , they made up less than one-third of the force . |
| 8 | That 's right , well that 's where it , and they drew up that old road , with their caravans you see . |
| 9 | They drew up some papers which said they legally owned it . |
| 10 | They used up all their goals against Oldham did n't they , two weeks ago when they did n't force any corners at all in the match ; scored five goals nevertheless . |
| 11 | To the right and a ten by eight to the left and then they went up a grade and they drove up same on both . |
| 12 | They ate up all the knives and forks and then they asked for more . |
| 13 | The Germans were highly organized , she said , pushing the blue-and-white enamelled iron back and forth : they hunted up all the Jews they could find . |
| 14 | The Oakley gave her the brush of the only fox they broke up that day . |
| 15 | So they packed up some pears and pineapples — set off well before the light hours |
| 16 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 17 | That same year they took up that old chestnut , the inspection of laundries attached to Roman Catholic ( and now Anglican ) nunneries ; they were annoyed that these had been excluded from the Factory Bill then before Parliament . |
| 18 | Watching him , Oliver said helpfully , ‘ They took up all this pavement last week . ’ |
| 19 | They went up some dark and broken stairs . |
| 20 | They went up another narrow passageway , not so much a passage as a mere slit between houses , and came out suddenly into open space . |
| 21 | His first signings were The Shop Assistants , whom he helped sign to Chrysalis after they notched up several hits in the independent charts . |
| 22 | At the end of September the group split up ; determined to get away from things English , they now decided to explore different areas , thinking they would learn more German if they gave up each others ' company . |
| 23 | Nsanzimana commented that both would be offered representation in the government if they gave up this condition and expressed a willingness to participate . |
| 24 | They stayed up all night before the flight back . |
| 25 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 26 | They backed up these demands with scarcely veiled threats . |