Example sentences of "[prep] them [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
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