Example sentences of "break up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen our old matriarch walk between two younger antagonists and break up a fight with a snarl , even though she was aged and barely able to walk . |
| 2 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 3 | Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan . |
| 4 | PC Holt was hit in the face with a hammer and needed four hours surgery after breaking up a fight in the Royal Well area of the town . |
| 5 | On April 30 , however , security forces broke up a rally by supporters of the UDPS , and unofficial reports claimed that two people were killed . |
| 6 | I remember him telling me how he once broke up a fight outside a nightclub . |
| 7 | On April 19 police forcibly broke up a demonstration by members of the Unmask 92 Descenmascaremos el 92 Movement opposed to the cost of Expo and its theme of celebrating the 500th anniversary of Columbus 's voyage to the Americas . |
| 8 | Riot police broke up a demonstration in protest at the government 's response but most teachers returned to work when the schools reopened on March 5 . |
| 9 | At Glasgow , where there was a full-scale riot when police broke up a meeting of 50,000 people at Glasgow Green , shops were ransacked and the police were bombarded with missiles by tenement dwellers . |
| 10 | Ricky broke up a piece of brown bread , but did n't eat it . |
| 11 | You seem to think that 1960s ' antitrust law enforcement was wonderful because the government ‘ took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . ’ |
| 12 | They are nonetheless a big comedown from the 1960s , when federal trustbusters took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . |
| 13 | Protesters on April 5 disrupted a march organized to show support for the President , and on the following day police broke up a protest in Adzope , 100 km north of Abidjan , shooting dead a student . |
| 14 | However , his first involvement was to break up a scuffle between Impey and Burrows , which brought Graeme Souness running onto the pitch to complain to the linesman — strange behaviour from a manager who , last month , was given a five-match touchline ban by UEFA . |
| 15 | Be careful not to break up a sentence with a full stop : Although she was a mentally ill person who lived in her own mind and was allocated a limited number of mental processes . |
| 16 | A WOMAN passer-by who tried to break up a fight outside a Chinese take-away restaurant was punched in the face , Brain-tree magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 17 | Dispersion : This is the ability of a detergent to break up a body of dirt into fine particles . |
| 18 | It was usually best to break up a demonstration in the early stages . |
| 19 | ‘ There was a time when photographs were used merely to break up a page of type , but it 's now developed into a fully-fledged art form of its own , ’ he observes . |
| 20 | The police were attacked as they tried to break up a crowd of about 10,000 people gathered in a field at Sidlow Bridge , near Reigate , Surrey . |