Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 2 | It was the same with the herring gutters that was here , I mind them working on the pier down here , and they all had their fingers tied up with Clotes There was the skill that work in this . |
| 3 | It was an unsatisfactory relationship , but their meetings made up for infrequency by their intensity . |
| 4 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 5 | Neighbours who were not so well thought of stood and watched at gun-point , while their homes went up in flames . |
| 6 | BE safe , not sorry , was the message from fire chiefs today as they and their crews geared up for fireworks night on Merseyside . |
| 7 | There are many people wasting their lives wrapped up in services that have been set up to meet their so-called ‘ special needs ’ . |
| 8 | In the protracted negotiations at Munster in 1645 – 48 the French representatives had their credentials drawn up in French and always used their own language in discussion . |
| 9 | But prison officers say their procedures to pick up at risk prisoners were followed . |
| 10 | I congratulate my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister , the Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor on their negotiations leading up to Maastricht and at the conference itself . |
| 11 | ‘ It is common for parents with jobs to leave their children locked up at home with TV Globo as their only companion . ’ |
| 12 | Video and one-way mirrors allow designers to see how their systems stand up in practice . |
| 13 | Post offices , railway stations and schools had the new , and the rest the old ; in the cottages there was friction as children and their fathers turned up for meals at different times . |
| 14 | Now their dishes make up in imagination and taste what they lack in meat . |
| 15 | Their lyrics stand up as poems , good light verse in their own right . |
| 16 | Teachers spend their breaks preparing lesson plans , and their evenings swotting up on jargon . |