Example sentences of "[pron] up [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such considerations lead to the idea that the way non-words are read is by first dividing them up into their graphemes ( CHOOPH-CH + OO + PH or SLOATCH — S + L + OA + TCH ) and then using a table of grapheme-phoneme correspondence rules to find the appropriate phoneme for each grapheme . |
| 2 | He and his friends would deliberately allow the quicksand to take them up to their knees before being extricated by the other members of the gang . |
| 3 | She did n't know where half the things went , but she tidied them up and put them in piles on the stairs so people could taken them up to their rooms when they went , and the kitchen looked nice and tidy . |
| 4 | Get them up on their feet . |
| 5 | The Edict of Pîtres in 864 strongly suggests the combination of political and fiscal reasons behind Charles 's determination to keep control of markets : others , presumably local magnates , had been setting them up on their own initiative , but the king now decreed that such markets were to be banned unless they secured royal authorisation , and royal agents were told to keep lists of those so authorised . |
| 6 | If they were opposed , it would take only 24 hours , but if there was no opposition it would take twice that time , because the cheering Romanian population would hold them up with their welcome . |
| 7 | They 'd got babies on their back , and they 'd be swinging them up over their hips . |
| 8 | Once I get them up from their rest , we go off to the lake and feed the ducks or we go to friends . |
| 9 | ( Wringing her apron in mock indignation ) That 's the third time this week I 've picked his Good polyester-dacron trousers up off the floor and Hung them up in their crease . |
| 10 | He and business associate Benedict Marsh , both 28 , allegedly got a friend to help by tying them up in their room . |
| 11 | When people do so , the health-care system and the political machinery of the community are fully prepared to back them up in their unhappy and anything-but-free choice of symptoms . |
| 12 | I hope she did n't find it as easy as she told them , if you shut them up in their room . |
| 13 | Certainly , he seems too slight of stature to have handcuffed heavier men and hauled them up by their wrists to hang , agonisingly , from hooks . |
| 14 | The workers then hang them up by their forelegs in underground galleries , like living storage jars . |
| 15 | Pulled them up by their boot strings , was what he said , but then they were talking about the Treaty of Versailles and about war reparations being hard on Germany . ’ |
| 16 | And they 're real dangerous too — they might jump onto the pavement and swallow me up with their big eyes . |
| 17 | No , Owen does n't , O N , O M does n't , so why do they always phone me up with their problems ? |
| 18 | And then Paul takes me up to their house where I , usually about ten past eleven gives me time to get the pushchair put up again and |
| 19 | My sisters dressed me up in their dresses and paraded me down the road and we listened to Van and I learned to love Van . |
| 20 | ‘ Everybody up on their feet ! |
| 21 | He had had to stand her up on their second date . |
| 22 | So , he had been winding her up about their sharing the same bed , amusing himself at her expense ! |
| 23 | When the baby was born , the O'Dells adopted her — a darling little girl , dark and pretty — and brought her up as their own , with Connor and Sean . |
| 24 | He locked her up in their hotel . |
| 25 | However Christ is understood , as people take him up into their culture , or make of him what they will , they know him to be male . |
| 26 | Watch how they move right up to a certain morsel and pick it up with their lips , or how they move no closer than several inches to another and then draw it to the edge of their lips with a mighty suck . |
| 27 | At one point in my innings I thought that a number of England fielders were deliberately walking on the pitch and scuffing it up with their spikes . |
| 28 | Bees collect nectar as well as pollen , sucking it up with their long tubular mouthparts and carrying it back within their stomachs to their nest , there to store it in their combs as honey . |
| 29 | Older people we know want to be offered more ways of preventing illness , so you know , they have to really be informed , er we want them to know about it so then they can make the choice as to whether they take it up with their G P . |
| 30 | They clear the remaining forest by fire , opening it up for their own agriculture , or to hand over to cattle ranchers . |