Example sentences of "[vb past] them up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes yes I was I had a month 's terminal leave er I 'd er I 'd heard that there was a job going , er phoned them up on the on the Monday , had an interview Tuesday , started the Friday . |
| 2 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
| 3 | Re Reg er er , er say we had er say , twenty ton o twenty ton of oats come in and we soon used them up before the next lot , I 'll start on the next lot he , the sample man 'd come in , you know , sample in come them oats he 'd come up perhaps , when they come in , check the first two or three sacks with me , you see , and then I 'd have to get a rubber get a bowl full of oats , bowl full of whole oats put into the rubber , see and get a bowl full of whole and put them through the crusher and crush the main , like , you know , like we used to have , just squeeze them , you know crack them |
| 4 | Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia . |
| 5 | Albert walked them up through the Grove . |
| 6 | The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he walked them up to the top of the hill and back again . |
| 7 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 8 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 9 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 10 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 11 | He has , to switch metaphors , grabbed by the throat the Tories ' controversial team of young election campaign advisers , shaken them vigorously , and hung them up on the nearest meat hook . |
| 12 | Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror . |
| 13 | The AIB investigators were somewhat baffled as to the cause of the accident until the RAF pathologist rang them up from the local mortuary . |
| 14 | Cohen 's men broke them up on the spot . |
| 15 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 16 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 17 | I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it . |
| 18 | Dr Lefeuvre dropped his scalpel with the other instruments , gathered them up in the cloth and put them in his bag . |
| 19 | He picked up his glasses and rubbed them up on the tablecloth . |
| 20 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 21 | One at a time I heaved them up onto the pedals , just in time to roll out downwind . |
| 22 | A burly serjeant-of-arms stopped them , asked their business , and grudgingly let them through into the main courtyard where they were halted by a steward who took them up into the main hall . |
| 23 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 24 | The young clerk , Buckingham , now dressed more festively , the funerals being over , took them up to the first floor , then up more stairs to the second storey of the house . |
| 25 | And so Mister Johnny took them up through the dark yew trees , carrying the goose and holding Nick 's hand . |
| 26 | Zborowski did have a buyer for the drawings in Lucien Descaves , the brother of the Police Commissioner who bought them up by the batch . |
| 27 | Shelley put ten long fingers to his chest and then flipped them up at the ceiling . |
| 28 | The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again . |
| 29 | He opened the rear door and folded Goldman on to the seat ; his legs trailed into the road and Elliott tucked them up on the seat . |
| 30 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |