Example sentences of "up the people " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 2 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 3 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 4 | And the BOR is a friendly fellow too ; he may sometimes be a rough diamond , he may swear and complain about the weather , the food , the British Government , but he shrewdly weighs up the people he meets . |
| 5 | On 9 October , students at Queen 's University , Belfast , set up the People 's Democracy ( PD ) group , ‘ a loose activist body committed to civil rights reforms , but with a tough Young Socialist hard core ’ ( Farrell , 1980:247 ) . |