Example sentences of "[vb past] up the subject of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sara returned they drank the ale and she brought up the subject of an increased allowance for her and the children . |
| 2 | One evening at Pack Meeting about two weeks before Christmas , Christine brought up the subject of Miss Miggs during Pow-wow . |
| 3 | Finally , when Schisgal had returned to his interrupted slumbers , Mortimer and Yates brought up the subject of the purpose of their visit . |
| 4 | Later that evening when they were seated comfortably in the bar Mary brought up the subject of the eerie feeling in the cutting ; they agreed it had been a most disturbing experience and that there must be some explanation . |
| 5 | In an address to a potentially hostile assembly of Protestant ministers , he brought up the subject of his religion and emphasized his belief in a strict separation of the affairs of state and those of the church . |
| 6 | It was Damian , the Dysons ' younger son , who first brought up the subject of marriage . |
| 7 | She brought up the subject of an inquest on a man who had hanged himself . |
| 8 | She brought up the subject of an inquest on a man who had hanged himself . |
| 9 | Hollywood was just beginning to realize that the old phenomenon of stars might have an added significance in a period of depression and there must have been considerable delight in the studios at the alacrity with which the critics took up the subject of Cagney . |