Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Now obviously B does follow quite properly from A but let's start off with Mr Williamson picking up the question , Is the policy required and if so does it give everybody sufficient guidance . |
2 | Malcolm Macleod sang a heroic song in Gaelic , with the boatmen and the Reverend Mr McQueen taking up the chorus . |
3 | Mr Robinson took up the case for a majority of the Castlereagh firemen who left the Fire Service because they were not prepared to uproot their families and move to Carryduff . |
4 | Mr Pigdon picked up the candle which had been ready to light him to bed from a shelf in an alcove by the door , and bustled past the visitor down the hall . |
5 | But he does n't come often , only when he wants Mr Ballantyne to put up the money for one of his schemes or projects , which Mr Ballantyne usually does for the sake of his daughter . |
6 | Mr Welch geared up the company 's locomotive-manufacturing business for a much-ballyhooed revival in American railways that never happened . |