Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellwood saw her eyes roll up to show the whites . |
| 2 | The second half was even more of a grab-bag than the first , the suspicion growing in Jude as she watched that the parody and pastiche was a smoke-screen put up to cover the creators ' embarrassment at their own sincerity . |
| 3 | He probably will not sleep in the unlikely event of the ghost of mass murderess Mary Ann Cotton showing up to see the graves of her victims . |
| 4 | And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other . |
| 5 | Penry got up to take the trays . |
| 6 | The problem for the potential incumbent is that it has to get enough customers signed up to enable the prices quoted to be profitable . |
| 7 | Whether this perspective represents wisdom or only a curious anachronism today , it commands the scrutiny of a post-war generation in the West brought up to respect the limits of military power more than its utility . |
| 8 | With two rooms used up holding the heavies , the bedroom 's all that is left . |
| 9 | At the at the Gorbels and after I was married During the war there was a terrific fire and he was burned to death in the lift going up to bring the girls down . |
| 10 | The trust for sale terms drawn up gave the trustees the right to manage the land and an obligation to sell it if it no longer produced a satisfactory income , with the proceeds of the sale going to the beneficiary , the consent of the beneficiary being necessary before the sale could take place . |
| 11 | Crooks signed up to enjoy the benefits of corruption and to lend their power . |
| 12 | In one area of the central fruit-growing region , north-east of Santiago , 600 seasonal workers have joined a new union set up to address the needs of the seasonal labourers and their families and to negotiate with employers . |
| 13 | And the plants that Thorn-EMI set up to press the discs will remain in mothballs . |
| 14 | This is despite the near completion of a £70,000 five year project set up to save the paths . |
| 15 | Your dad stays up to watch the movies . |
| 16 | ‘ Off with their heads ! ’ she shouted , and soldiers hurried up to take the gardeners away . |
| 17 | Two brick arches put up to channel the waters of an underground river have been uncovered for the first time in nearly two hundred years . |
| 18 | Instead of concentrating on the lines of the dance — which they will need if they ever dance in Ashton 's Symphonic Variations or Monotones , MacMillan 's Requiem or Bintley 's Consort Lessons — students spend more time loosening up to meet the demands of modern choreographers . |
| 19 | The £100.7m rights issue it intends to use to buy and develop land as the market picks up left the shares a penny stronger at 197p . |
| 20 | The Government will also encourage more family doctors to hold budgets to ‘ buy ’ services for patients , and is looking at ways to enable smaller practices to team up to secure the advantages of fund holding . |