Example sentences of "[prep] stir up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in 1933 , he accused the Jews abroad of stirring up agitation and boycotts against Germany , and claimed that this had made an impact on Jews inside Germany itself , whose public provocative behaviour had stirred up countless complaints and calls for action by the government . |
| 2 | An agitated old lady addressed Ramsey severely and asked why he did not go back to his own country and do good there instead of stirring up trouble in the United States . |
| 3 | Jane had driven over to Zoe 's in happy anticipation of stirring up trouble : the other woman 's clothes and beads were tangible evidence of Lowell 's love affair . |
| 4 | English political interests on balance dictated help for the Protestants , even though that in itself meant the risk of stirring up reaction from France and perhaps even Spain . |
| 5 | There had been disaffection among the Welsh in the universities for more than eighteen months now , and many a wandering musician had been thrown into prison for stirring up sedition with his tribal songs , and more than one had been put to death . |
| 6 | Early in 1935 Göring assured Ambassador Lipski that , far from stirring up trouble in the border , Danzig was quiet only because the Nazis were in control . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's no point in stirring up scandal if it is n't necessary . ’ |
| 8 | For the most part other trade union leaders of the day accepted that the Federation was an active agent in stirring up trouble for Wilson . |
| 9 | The most active Liberal associations are keen on stirring up interest in purely local issues — a process known as community politics . |
| 10 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 11 | He wo n't wan na stir up trouble . |