Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] up their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If officers throw up their commissions and troops refuse to fire , Home Rule is dead , but a great deal else is dead too . |
| 2 | The reformers argued that since departments built up their philosophies over a period of time and since new measures took a considerable period to negotiate , these processes should be opened up so that the informed public could make its reactions clear while principles were still being settled . |
| 3 | Fran Maidment is now revcovering from the shock and pain joyriding causes , while police step up their search for the child drivers , growing it seems younger by the day . |
| 4 | Sporadic outbreaks of lawlessness at British ports — which have already included an attack on a Russian trawler at Peterhead — are likely to intensify as fishermen step up their protests against the imports they blame for prices plummeting at the quayside . |
| 5 | And as police step up their investigation , they 're appealing for anyone with any information to come forward . |
| 6 | MANY jobs and services in local government are under threat as councils draw up their budgets for the coming year , it was claimed yesterday . |