Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be better for them to prop up the Ottoman empire for a while longer , but at the same time to keep their options open by maintaining contact with the various factions amongst the Serbs . |
| 2 | you know , below the shadow of both the next two properties , we shall , we shall , you know , just have a brick wall , and if they they just shifted the garage to one end and as far as I 'm concerned it 's an excuse for them to put up the power , that is , |
| 3 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 4 | ‘ And if we 're to outwit these giants , there 's nothing for it but for me to call up the Draoicht Suan . |
| 5 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 6 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 7 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 8 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 9 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 10 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 11 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |
| 12 | He reached past her to pick up the papers , a faint smile curling his chiselled lips as he scanned the typewritten sheets . |
| 13 | ‘ It was childish of her to rip up the picture , ’ says Nuala O'Connor . |
| 14 | Most of it makes up the timber framework of the trees . |
| 15 | There are no hordes that have rushed past us to take up the torch . ’ |
| 16 | Explain to your secretary what you are doing as you fill up the waste bins . |
| 17 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 18 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 19 | Yes , but if if we take the dog with us go up the heath and then I go to the hairdressers erm you do n't need a haircut anyway do you ? |
| 20 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 21 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 23 | He offered to forgo part of his salary as long as some employment would be found for him to make up the difference . |
| 24 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 25 | It 's the only real explanation Tolby had for him starting up the divorce proceedings again . |
| 26 | I was n't really listening , just waiting for her to pick up the phone . ’ |
| 27 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 28 | I waited for her to bring up the subject of Graham 's murder because I knew she would have been very upset . |
| 29 | It never crosses Hoving 's mind that Ingres is an artist by whom it is impossible to own too many works — nor , for that matter , that the ‘ uninspired portrait of the Marechal Count Gerard , which to me summed up the pomposity of Bonaparte 's court ’ ( one of the Ingres mentioned in Hoving 's list ) is in fact a fine , signed and dated , late work by Jacques-Louis David ! |
| 30 | The Feldwebel pointed to the entrance to the station and the mousy man signed to me to pick up the case . |