Example sentences of "people [verb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sufferer has to want to seek help and will not want to do so if other people cover up the consequences of addictive disease . |
| 2 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 3 | When a different set of people takes up the questions , this becomes obvious . |
| 4 | Joseph 's people pulled up the stakes that the surveyors planted , but after the ratification of the Thief Treaty the next year , they continued to arrive . |
| 5 | Please do not think that only suicidal people ring up the Samaritans . |
| 6 | It 's , it 's living in harmony I suppose will be the word you know the , the environment sort of moves in to the power station and does n't get attacked , everywhere else gets attacked you know , people scrub up the weeds in the garden and things like that , here they 're allowed to grow , the butterflies come in , insects , great you know just , just love it . |
| 7 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |