Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He accuses them of running up a hundred million pound debt during their years in control , and says the Tories are wrong to go along with them . |
| 2 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 3 | The Company devoted itself to building up a substantial trade in pepper which , while not as valuable as the most expensive products of the Spice Islands like nutmeg and cloves , still commanded a very steady market in Europe . |
| 4 | Now Mr Onanuga 's bosses have suspended him for making up the whole story about Mr Lamont . |
| 5 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 6 | After teaching himself to juggle , the 27-year-old is now advertising for fellow Big Top devotees to join him in starting up a little troupe . |
| 7 | Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again . |
| 8 | Not that it stopped her from gobbling up every cultural titbit dropped before her . |
| 9 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 10 | She done us for skating up the fucking |