Example sentences of "[verb] up their [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These built up their strength through youth organizations , clubs and activity centres in the refugee camps and towns . |
| 2 | On 1 January 1559 , the ‘ Beggars ' Summons ’ was nailed to the doors of the Scottish friaries , demanding in the name of the ‘ Blind , Crooked , Bedridden , Widows , Orphans and all other poor , so visited by the hand of God as may not work ’ , that the friars should give up their patrimony by Whitsun . |
| 3 | At that point — and discovering such identity of meaning may take some time — children should give up their form in favour of the conventional one for that meaning ( Clark , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | The extreme nature of the damage seen in the diurnal raptors is matched to a considerable degree in some of the owls , and both approach the degree of damage done by mammalian carnivores ( Fig. 3.4 ) , which have the added advantage of crushing teeth by which they break up their prey before ingestion ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | Elaine and Michael Artus , their savings wiped out , will keep up their fight for compensation . |
| 6 | I feel that it 's about creating the warmth and security at home , in school , wherever they are , from outside to help build up their sense of warmth and security from within , and to enable them to learn how to deal with some of these issues so that they can cope with the difficulties of life when they grow up . |
| 7 | This in turn will build up their confidence in English which they will carry with them throughout their English learning careers . |
| 8 | Now they 're stepping up their call for action . |
| 9 | Wycombe will make up their game in hand at Moss Lane this afternoon and go three points in front if they beat struggling Altrincham . |
| 10 | For their part , the Muslims had already given up their claim to reunion with Syria as their price for participation in government under the Covenant . |
| 11 | If the Bank of England puts up its rediscount rate , discount houses will have to put up their rate of discount on bills ( i.e. pay a lower price for them ) . |
| 12 | The army believes the new traning centre will help them step up their fight against terrorism . |
| 13 | Gypsy families , who 've camped for 70 years on sites like this one near Hereford , say they have no desire to give up their way of life . |
| 14 | There are many instances of white youths being pressured by their parents to give up their sport in preference for more reasonable and secure occupations , lest they invest their time and energies in a pointless pursuit of intangible dreams . |
| 15 | Banks would then divert assets from advances to call money , which would create a shortage of money for advances and drive up their rate of interest . |
| 16 | Several airlines are trying to build up their position in advance of the single European market of next year , when the third airline liberalisation package should allow them to operate abroad as though in their home country . |
| 17 | The European Community and America need to resume the GATT talks at once , patch up their quarrel over farm trade , and conclude the agreements on services and other issues that had seemed within reach when the talks were suspended . |
| 18 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 19 | Most mammalian predators are effective hunters of small mammals , hunting mostly at night , and they produce the greatest modifications to the bones of their prey because they use their shearing teeth to break up their prey before ingestion . |
| 20 | They gave up their home in South Bank and are now at St Andrew 's Bible College , Malton . |
| 21 | Nobody in their right mind gave up their holiday in favour of work ! |
| 22 | And it is often those who suffer abuse who are capable of horrendous acts of violence , storing up their hatred for release in an act of revenge against the world . |
| 23 | Starting next week ARC will be putting posters on buses , mounting an advertising campaign and pushing thousands of leaflets through doors inviting sufferers to take up their offer of information about the conditions . |
| 24 | MORE than 1,000 Maxwell pensioners and print workers yesterday staged a rally and lobby of Parliament to step up their campaign for Government action to give them long-term security for their pensions . |
| 25 | One other piece of football news — Swindon Town hope to step up their fight for survival tomorrow by signing Roy Wegerle from Coventry City — the fee five hundred thousand pounds . |
| 26 | Now they are poised to step up their bid for promotion to the Premier Division in the New Year along with group winners Cheshire . |