Example sentences of "they [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end . |
| 2 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 3 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 4 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 5 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
| 6 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 7 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 8 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 9 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
| 10 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
| 11 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
| 12 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
| 14 | Progress charts are evident in all areas of the company , measuring quality improvements and waste reduction , many of them drawn up by the production staff . |
| 15 | But most of them finish up against the scaffolding . |
| 16 | ‘ Most of them finish up against the bridge these days , apparently . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ One of them opened up with a chopper . |
| 18 | Can you imagine them growing up under a cloud like that ? |
| 19 | I do n't want them growing up like the Hales . |
| 20 | There were a lot of very nasty people around , then as now , and if one of them turned up in no condition for a party , lying on the towpath , there was no questions asked . ’ |
| 21 | You do n't want them to grow up in a sterile environment . |
| 22 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
| 23 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 24 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 25 | It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone . |
| 26 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 27 | Mr Fu , probably illiterate , can not get the kind of job with a township enterprise that would enable them to keep up with the Lis . |
| 28 | I mean we , we said to them ring up on the day |
| 29 | This irritates the worms sufficiently to cause them to crawl up to the surface immediately , where they can be collected easily in daylight . |
| 30 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |