Example sentences of "[vb past] them up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 2 | With the Apostles in mind , he has produced twelve wooden blocks , akin to children 's bricks , and lined them up on shelves . |
| 3 | Men with nothing in their heads always filled them up with bits of women 's bodies . |
| 4 | Rebecque brought the orders himself and handed them up to Sharpe who was already mounted . |
| 5 | He also handcuffed prisoners , swung them up on hooks and watched them dangle . |
| 6 | Another who knocked them up before daylight . |
| 7 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 8 | And I brought them up on Monday night |
| 9 | He extracted their blood and their vital juices and boiled them up with mercury and potassium and other , secret ingredients . |
| 10 | These , at least until recently , hardly kept them up to date at all with stock market developments . |
| 11 | United 's game plan , with few refinements , is that which took them up behind Wolves in May : long balls from the back , incessant hustling in midfield , nine men behind the ball when the opposition have it . |
| 12 | Although he ran for office saying that he saw no need to raise taxes , he put them up by $1.8 billion in 1990 , the biggest increase ever seen in his largely affluent , suburban state . |
| 13 | Tore them up into strips . |
| 14 | Next morning , a chauffeur-driven limousine picked them up after breakfast . |
| 15 | Wrapped them up for Nat . |