Example sentences of "to break up a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Cath from T-shirts is on crutches after treading barefoot on broken glass trying to break up a skinhead brawl .
2 However , his first involvement was to break up a scuffle between Impey and Burrows , which brought Graeme Souness running onto the pitch to complain to the linesman — strange behaviour from a manager who , last month , was given a five-match touchline ban by UEFA .
3 ‘ If you 're forced to live in a place you hate , it 's the surest way to break up a marriage . ’
4 Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes .
5 Using reasonable force to break up a fight would , either way , not be unlawful , whereas pushing a pupil back into line most probably would be .
6 However , Melanie has recently been bitten on the arm through diving between them to break up a fight .
7 A WOMAN passer-by who tried to break up a fight outside a Chinese take-away restaurant was punched in the face , Brain-tree magistrates heard yesterday .
8 Nicky Mohan will miss the opening game of the Premier League after being sent off at Molineux after being sent off for trying to break up a fight !
9 Dispersion : This is the ability of a detergent to break up a body of dirt into fine particles .
10 It was usually best to break up a demonstration in the early stages .
11 ‘ There was a time when photographs were used merely to break up a page of type , but it 's now developed into a fully-fledged art form of its own , ’ he observes .
12 The police were attacked as they tried to break up a crowd of about 10,000 people gathered in a field at Sidlow Bridge , near Reigate , Surrey .
13 They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole .
14 Did he seriously believe that she had set out to break up a woman 's marriage ?
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