Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a snow crystal grows in free fall , the angular deviation within the molecules sets up stresses and the hexagon will not close completely . |
| 2 | He kicked his horse into a trot and the hooves kicked up sparks from the cobbles . |
| 3 | When the magistrate and his party from Burford reached the encampment , the militiamen took up positions virtually surrounding the celebrating gipsies . |
| 4 | Two of the Kamalians scooped up Skorpions . |
| 5 | The Republicans put up candidates in about half the constituencies and their overall share of the vote stayed low at 2.3 per cent . |
| 6 | The managers built up portfolios which enabled them to demonstrate competence in ten specific areas from their day to day work . |
| 7 | The males set up territories which they will defend vigorously against others of their own kind , and fights to the death have occasionally been witnessed . |
| 8 | The screws made up promises , like if we took the barricade down they 'd leave us alone , they would n't punish us . |
| 9 | Mrs Burrows and the sisters bought up remnants of material at the sales and " sewed and sewed " to get Eva ready . |
| 10 | It would bring joy to millions of people if the Royals gave up bloodsports . |
| 11 | The numerical imbalance was not too great , even with the large Greek contingent : the Persians swept up Greeks and Egyptians into a small island in the Nile Delta called Prosopitis . |
| 12 | In summer , when the white trash Protestants from the rookeries of the Dock Road marched in honour of King Billy , the police put up barricades to stop the Catholic men from charging the procession . |
| 13 | THE IRA yesterday renewed its efforts to shift the blame for the weekend 's bomb atrocity at Warrington , as the police followed up lines of inquiry from 300 calls to a special hotline . |
| 14 | The Act also empowers the police to set up roadblocks to discover whether vehicles contain anyone who has witnessed , committed or is about to commit a serious crime . |
| 15 | These were the years of the infamous ‘ American Plan ’ , which advocated the use of blacklists , spies , injunctions and propaganda , and the ‘ Mohawk Valley Formula ’ which urged employers to use the police to break up meetings and organise vigilante groups to protect strikebreakers ( Fox Piven and Cloward , 1977:120 ) . |
| 16 | On the Gamily Fast Day in October , the children gave up snacks and donated the money save to a collection which was brought up at the offertory at a special mass in school . |
| 17 | It was not until the famous Hertfordshire Blizzard of 1915 , when Shaw went out and worked with the menfolk sawing up trees that lay blocking the roads , and the Zeppelin Raid the following year ( which he incorporated into his play Heartbreak House ) , when he offered his cellar as a shelter , that the villagers grew friendly with him . |
| 18 | The court had been told that the boys made up stories after the accused had thrown them out of his home for stealing cigarettes . |
| 19 | The price of property in the village had risen as people from the towns bought up cottages as second homes and young couples could no longer afford them . |