Example sentences of "they [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
2 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
3 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
4 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
5 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
6 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
7 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
8 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
9 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
10 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
11 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
12 | Progress charts are evident in all areas of the company , measuring quality improvements and waste reduction , many of them drawn up by the production staff . |
13 | But most of them finish up against the scaffolding . |
14 | ‘ Most of them finish up against the bridge these days , apparently . ’ |
15 | I do n't want them growing up like the Hales . |
16 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
17 | It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone . |
18 | Mr Fu , probably illiterate , can not get the kind of job with a township enterprise that would enable them to keep up with the Lis . |
19 | I mean we , we said to them ring up on the day |
20 | This irritates the worms sufficiently to cause them to crawl up to the surface immediately , where they can be collected easily in daylight . |
21 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
22 | For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef . |
23 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
24 | And I warn you , if any of my designs or anything like them turn up in the showroom at the House of Oliver I shall sue — and win the sort of damages that will put your little friend out of business for good . |
25 | ‘ I 've seen them go up in the sky , ’ said Masklin . |
26 | The guard who had brought them went up beside the chair , knelt and spoke quietly to Bruce in a language Corbett could not understand and guessed that it was probably Gaelic , a language totally alien to him . |
27 | When they met up with the rest of the Carlisle Flint team Kate tried to ignore the studiously impassive face of Mike Booker as he greeted her . |
28 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
29 | And they all , they got up in the morning and I was n't home still |
30 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |