Example sentences of "they up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got red ones , blue ones , pick them up off the ground when they 're finished with them . |
| 2 | The young , untrained dog must have chased them up to the edge of the pit , where they fell to their death . |
| 3 | As these letters have had no discernible effect and The Awesome Three boys are still enjoying the odd night tying up white-clad virgins and offering them up to the Devil , the incensed mothers have now taken to writing to the band 's parents . |
| 4 | Mhm so did they they give them up to the folk |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 7 | They thought it was normal for Lucy ( they had never called her Mummy ) to fly from room to room looking for her watch , keys , diary , gloves , scarf , and blow a kiss to them from the garden path as the taxi-driver carried her cello out to the car , while Nissy held them up to the window to wave . |
| 8 | Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " . |
| 9 | SCRIBBLED swear words on pillows and held them up to the cabin crew members demonstrating emergency procedures . |
| 10 | They hit many patches of soft sand and wasted hours unloading vehicles , shoving them up to the top of dunes and reloading again . |
| 11 | The grand old Duke of York , he had ten thousand men , he walked them up to the top of the hill and back again . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | take them up to the bathroom or something you big daft nut . |
| 15 | If there is a surplus remaining after paying all proved debts ( including interest on them up to the date of the bankruptcy order ) , it must be applied to the payment of interest on all proved debts ( including any interest thereon up to the date of the bankruptcy order ( s 328(4) ) . |
| 16 | The timber and the bath and such came across by boat into the bay there , and a fine job they had dragging them up to the house . ’ |
| 17 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 18 | I pretended to find a smudge on the glasses , rinsed them , dried them and held them up to the light . |
| 19 | if you hold them up to the light then you see them |
| 20 | So long as they are not excluded candidates having " too few " votes must be allowed to collect if they can enough transferred votes to bring them up to the quota . |
| 21 | Well I fill the milk churns with the livers and take them up to the shop . |
| 22 | Used to bring them up to the dock |
| 23 | Used to bring them up to the dock . |
| 24 | Because Robbie was working , Fen had offered to meet their train and take them up to the manor house . |
| 25 | Erm , thank goodness for er modern technology I got them please do n't , do n't all fax them up to the department , er these faxes are very hard to read |
| 26 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 27 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 28 | Tonight we visit a village which is so proud of it 's gardens , it 's opening them up for the public to enjoy . |
| 29 | Block discounting — a finance house may buy a ‘ block ’ of debtors from a company at a discount , and follow them up for the company . |
| 30 | The format has to be reviewed in order to restore the balance between the desire to give the playing countries enough games in the early stage to sharpen them up for the knock-out competition , and the need for a structure that is both fair and seen to be fair . |