Example sentences of "he [verb] up the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 2 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 4 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 5 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |
| 6 | He tosses up the Clothes with a barbarous swing over his Shoulders , disorders the whole Economy of my Bed , leaves me half naked , and my whole Night 's Comfort is the tuneable Serenade of that wakeful Nightingale , his Nose . |
| 7 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 8 | He smashed up the nests of the Birds of Paradise , and flew off laughing . |
| 9 | He flicked up the tails of his brocade coat and sat beside her , stretching out his long legs . |
| 10 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 11 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |
| 12 | He summed up the benefits of open systems to Harris as including a reduction in operating costs of between 60% and 75% , functional staff reductions of between 20-50% , software maintenance savings of between 50% and 60% and cost avoidance in the region of $250m to $300m , this being based on the cost per MIPS of a mainframe , $44,300 , compared with a workstation server of $761 per MIPS . |
| 13 | He wrote up the names of all trainees on the white board , and at the end of the day , he wrote up the sales scores of each one . |
| 14 | Reporters and police rushed for cover , watching Janotte as he ran up the banks of a nearby gully . |
| 15 | He hoovered up the dregs of his coffee and scurried out of the cafe . |
| 16 | He picked up the women in the street . |
| 17 | Anne could see , though , that he was trembling as he picked up the handles of the handcart and moved away . |
| 18 | The London driver said he picked up the brothers at Grosvenor House Hotel after the Players ' Union awards dinner last Sunday . |
| 19 | He picked up the reins in a temper and slapped them hard across the horse 's back . |