Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef . |
2 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
3 | They managed to get some ones on the sea , but they did have a try erm a lot of them come up with the erm barking up the wrong tree said the dog , you know , things like that with a bit of help . |
4 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
5 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
6 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
7 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
8 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
9 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
10 | But most of them finish up against the scaffolding . |
11 | ‘ Most of them finish up against the bridge these days , apparently . ’ |
12 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
13 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
14 | Progress charts are evident in all areas of the company , measuring quality improvements and waste reduction , many of them drawn up by the production staff . |
15 | Most of them ended up in the Middle East with Layforce , and when that was broken up they attached themselves to Combined Operations in Alexandria . |
16 | And I warn you , if any of my designs or anything like them turn up in the showroom at the House of Oliver I shall sue — and win the sort of damages that will put your little friend out of business for good . |
17 | I mean we , we said to them ring up on the day |