Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 2 | That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’ |
| 3 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 4 | Expenditures , er some of the the er higher amounts are printing at ninety pounds fifty , cons conference fees at sixty pounds , er Euro Election er donation of twenty five pounds , photocopies of forty pounds , er bank charges Which er was a point that I took up with the bank erm Mr Chairman last December . |
| 5 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 6 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
| 7 | allow and they reckon that soft ones are better suited too sports because , because of the great action they 're harder to , to knock out , whereas soft ones er , have better other qualities , I 've got this little fucking book , book that I picked up in the Boots in Farnborough the other day yes , its quite interesting . |
| 8 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 9 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 10 | You must do all the inserts first and then copy down so that you end up with the right formula at the end of the day which is the C five , C eight . |
| 11 | The bigger the flock , the smaller the chance that you end up as the cat 's next victim . |
| 12 | By keeping the table between the two of you , you could lure him round it so that you end up nearer the exit ; the same idea can be used in the street with parked cars . |
| 13 | When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea . |
| 14 | Well , I think you 're you 're putting your finger on the issue that we brought up at the very beginning about this man in the churchyard . |
| 15 | ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment . |
| 16 | Yes , c or another sign that they put up by the side of the road is was you passing this spot this time last week did you see anything . |
| 17 | In addition to jobs , the measurable benefits of economic TNPs include the exports due to foreign firms , and the backward linkages that they set up in the host economy , that is the locally produced goods and services they purchase , either from existing firms or from firms established primarily to supply the TNCs . |
| 18 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |
| 19 | They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden . |
| 20 | The reason for this is that the number of tucks within the work distorts the knit stitches in such a way that they rise up above the surface of the knitting , forming a very three-dimensional effect . |
| 21 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 22 | Allow your children to see your own grief so that they grow up with the idea that it is a natural reaction to an unhappy situation . |
| 23 | Cramp the workpiece to the upper board and by means of a wood block ensure that it lines up with the edge of the top board . |
| 24 | Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both . |
| 25 | Add a length of plastic pipe over the top of the funnel so that it comes up to the top of the bottle . |
| 26 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 27 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 28 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 29 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 30 | I guess it 's probably just that he glide up to the second part of the diphthong , has been displaced so you 've just got the first part of it left , |