Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages . |
| 2 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 3 | They enable us to break up the larger and more nebulous goals , into smaller , more manageable pieces . |
| 4 | These are very useful , as they enable you to balance up the individual microphone inputs with a degree of precision which is not easy to achieve simply by listening on headphones . |
| 5 | They need us to back up the regular force … but some of the police who are in a supervisory role are anti reserve police . |