Example sentences of "[vb past] them up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure .
2 His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland .
3 We did that and we counted it in bunches of five dozens , tied them up with two other stock socks tied together , and when we 'd done , I 'll know this figure 's right two thousand four hundred socks we got six pence .
4 Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain .
5 on my own , brought them from Canada and I brought them up without any help from my ex-husband and I would n't of wanted it any other way .
6 Dorothea had often wondered about the crumbs , whether they stored them up in some kitchen jar and you got them , months later , coating your fish .
7 Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment .
8 Yeah one seventy nine he put them to , and then he put them up to one eighty two or summat and then they 've gone up to one eighty nine I think they are .
9 Yet , in the sterling crisis , he put them up to 15 per cent for the day .
10 It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh .
11 Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good .
12 She dressed them up in full nineteenth century bourgeois feminine regalia and had them flower arranging or idling by the mantelpiece as in ‘ Angela ’ .
13 Gripping her wrists , he pushed them up on either side of her head , and swooped down to kiss her fiercely , with devastating thoroughness .
14 With three matches to go , NSW 's , outright victory over SA pushed them up into equal second place with WA , two points behind leaders and defending champions Victory and two points clear of Queensland , who have a game in hand .
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