Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These poltroons seems to think that it 's a big deal to hoist a few pints of Smithwicks after an afternoon spent with their heads stuck up some geezer 's back passes . |
| 2 | Or is this yet another example of the Government and their supporters talking up human rights in theory and knocking them down in practice ? |
| 3 | Peasants were united in their hostility towards the small number of households who left their villages to set up separate homesteads under Stolypin 's provisions , and , above all , towards the nobility . |
| 4 | With an eye on the trend for people with time on their hands to take up neglected crafts such as paint finishing and upholstery , Parissien notes , ‘ There are lots of courses on 101 things to do with furnishing fabrics , but there 's less for the layperson about structure , about actually saving your house . ’ |
| 5 | Muayyad Said also accused American forces camped outside the city of Nasiriya in the south of Iraq of stealing antiquities from the locality of Tel El-lahm , saying that ‘ while the American forces were digging in , the soldiers used their bayonets to dig up various artifacts from the site . ’ |