Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 2 | Is not it true that some documents that the Public Accounts Committee receives are not published , such as the memorandum that the National Audit Office drew up for me on the accountability of United Nations agencies ? |
| 3 | The tanks and troops were still crossing the river as the Officer I had accompanied drew up beside me with the jeep . |
| 4 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 5 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 6 | The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her . |
| 7 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 8 | A man caught up with her on the pavement and for a moment she stared at him blankly . |
| 9 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 11 | Halfway down we caught up with them outside the Trift Hotel and sat together in the sunshine on the veranda looking up at the peaks , eating spaghetti and drinking beer . |
| 12 | She caught up with him beside the telephone . |
| 13 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 14 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 15 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 16 | The man had come up to her at the entrance to the library where she worked and just asked her . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're doing them a favour because legislation will catch up with them in the end . |
| 18 | Eventually , though , it will catch up with you in the form of self-loathing , as the pounds pile themselves on and you possibly curb your social life , and , moreover , endanger your health . |
| 19 | Our main memory is of trying to keep the inside of the windscreen free of ice ( no heater ) while queues of traffic built up beside us on the long haul up Shap Fell . |
| 20 | I said , squaring up to him with the fish slice in my hand like a machete . |
| 21 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
| 22 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott , caught up in something of the optimism in the British Imperial Headquarters at Cairo after General Wavell 's sweeping desert victories of December 1940 , was aware of these and many more problems as he completed a survey through the periscope of a mine-laying submarine off the island of Rhodes , which lies close to the Turkish coast ( see map p. 116 ) . |
| 23 | Botham 's recall took many by surprise after age and injuries appeared to catch up with him in the Test series . |
| 24 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 25 | A well was sunk in the back garden , and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen . |
| 26 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 27 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
| 28 | ‘ When strangers walk up to you in the street and scream abuse , it hurts , ’ he said . |
| 29 | They catch up with you in the end . |
| 30 | I enjoyed meeting up with you at the JNCC presentation on Monday evening and was impressed in particular by Lord Selbourne 's clear determination ( shared by all the country council chairmen ) to make the JNCC both an effective co-ordinating body between the councils and a strategic ‘ think tank ’ on issues where a UK or an international perspective is essential . |