Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] and [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 2 | Shaven-headed Nationalists rolled a car on to its side and took up positions behind it . |
| 3 | Cissie had been most reluctant to surrender her independence and take up employment in Moll Sutton 's flower shop . |
| 4 | A fight involving 150 people led to BUF members breaking up an IFL meeting , tearing up its banner and beating up Arnold Leese and Brigadier-General Blakeney , the ex-president of the BFs . |
| 5 | A detachment of Cromwell 's troops guarding the bridge at nearby Bewdley came to Kidderminster to cut off their retreat and took up position in the square . |
| 6 | Grant sat back , decided to use his transceiver and call up Lawton , hungry for the sound of another human voice . |
| 7 | T V , on the whole , generates material for itself , and makes little forays out into your territory and picks up people . |
| 8 | John said : ‘ By reducing our holding in this block we are spreading our risk and freeing up funds for development elsewhere . |