Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all religions have had their mystical failures who have used their experiences to prop up the ego rather than transcend it and whose behaviour has been very odd indeed . |
| 2 | Some companies , including James Capel , the stockbrokers , called in their workforces to clear up the damage . |
| 3 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 4 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 5 | A rag-tag convoy in half-tracks and armoured cars passed by City Hall , their outriders churning up the flower beds . |
| 6 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 7 | Everyone went mad , stripping off their tops to soak up the sun , doing handstands and laying out tents and kit to dry — until the rain started again ! ’ |
| 8 | When in the 1880s , anxiety about the question grew more acute , and when exhortation to society members not to instruct " female learners " or to allow their daughters to take up the trade seemed to have little effect , more organized attempts were made to confront the problem . |
| 9 | The Kremlin Armoury and the Hermitage sent their trucks to pick up the shipments at customs , and to make the rounds in their respective cities . |