Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borg 's wife serves up Pounds ¼m-a-year divorce ace |
| 2 | Churchill 's decision to set up S Branch and his support for the economists within the Cabinet Office stemmed from an enduring distrust of official advice on economic policy which can be dated back to his unhappy time at the Treasury in 1924–29 , particularly his much criticised decision , taken on official advice , to return to the gold standard in 1925 . |
| 3 | About two minutes later Danny 's truck , with us following close behind , turned a corner and there was the slip road leading to the Motorway — only nothing was ever going to get far down that road for there were the four big trucks in Big Ben 's convoy lined up wall to wall across the road facing us . |
| 4 | Nigel Walker , clocked at 10.35 secs for the 100 metres , ignored fellow Olympic hurdler Colin Jackson 's advice to set up Cardiff 's 39-14 win over Newbridge . |
| 5 | He said oh for God 's sake shut up Kim ! |
| 6 | To help guarantee the new loans , the World Bank , the IMF and Japan 's government stumped up $3.9 billion of new money . |
| 7 | Athens could not ignore this , and an indecisive battle ( Tanagra ) followed by a decisive one ( Oinophyta ) gave Athens control of Boiotia till 446 ( see p. 43 for her ‘ land empire ’ ambitions , and for Sparta 's desire to set up Thebes as a counterweight to Athens ) . |