Example sentences of "them up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 2 | Transposed them up a semitone ? |
| 3 | Creeping plants , such as Java Moss , can be trained into shapes , perhaps by growing them up a trellis , or over suitable-arranged rockwork . |
| 4 | When you are quite happy and confident with your untidy loops you can start to clean them up a little . |
| 5 | The only returners that some companies regard as worth training are young high-flyers coming back from maternity leave ; it wo n't hurt to shake them up a little . |
| 6 | That 's shaken them up a bit , I expect . ’ |
| 7 | He would watch their puzzled , attentive faces while Nonni talked about clothes and the latest film she had seen , ‘ jollying them up a bit ’ , as she called it : she thought that because their lives had been man-less , they were therefore dull and sad . |
| 8 | The internal-combustion engine probably chews them up a lot more than anything that 's gone before , but the Patients themselves do n't alter . |
| 9 | Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it . |
| 10 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 11 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |
| 12 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 13 | Well normally when he gives marrow bones I ask him to chop them up a bit smaller |
| 14 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 15 | Put them up a what ? |
| 16 | No that 's part of the the windows washing but I 'll quickly washed over them just to spruce them up a bit but I thought if I put Mrs in that , is she driving , or is she not ? |
| 17 | keep telling me they 're putting them up a lot in the budget . |
| 18 | I think it 's the stomach that 's fatter pulls them up a bit . |
| 19 | Yeah , it 'll be nice and you can fix , fix them up a run and |