Example sentences of "[verb] them [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar . |
| 2 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 3 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 4 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 5 | I do n't want them growing up like the Hales . |
| 6 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 7 | Recent storms have obviously set them loose , causing them to wash up on the shoreline . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've seen them go up in the sky , ’ said Masklin . |
| 9 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 10 | This irritates the worms sufficiently to cause them to crawl up to the surface immediately , where they can be collected easily in daylight . |
| 11 | In The Hitch-hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy the author , Douglas Adams , describes a planet inhabited by a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings who build a hyperintelligent computer to help them come up with the answer to Life , the Universe and Everything . |
| 12 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
| 13 | Mr Fu , probably illiterate , can not get the kind of job with a township enterprise that would enable them to keep up with the Lis . |
| 14 | The guard who had brought them went up beside the chair , knelt and spoke quietly to Bruce in a language Corbett could not understand and guessed that it was probably Gaelic , a language totally alien to him . |
| 15 | It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone . |
| 16 | If we can get them lined up at the entrance , they should be sucked through like water through a plug hole . |
| 17 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 18 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
| 19 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |