Example sentences of "they [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 .
  Next page