Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 2 | Got them wetting themselves up on the clouds , I daresay … |
| 3 | It 's alright when they bring it up on the screen and then tell you . |
| 4 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 5 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 6 | They press themselves up against the adventurers . |
| 7 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 8 | Mhm so did they they give them up to the folk |
| 9 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 10 | So can we just develop that one says that in our own department they put it up on the wall so people complete it themselves . |
| 11 | now it 's thirty five or thirty six I mean they put it up for the er crisis |
| 12 | We 've sent letters to everybody , the Home Office , everywhere , and to say why have they put it up in the middle of an estate . |
| 13 | ‘ They opened it up during the war but the seams were too deep . |
| 14 | They are responsible for every aspect of the children 's care , i.e. they wake them up in the morning , take lying , sitting , standing , and walking groups , teach the National Curriculum lessons , toilet and bath the children and put them to bed . |
| 15 | Anyway , I do know they hung Him up on the cross so it did n't do Him a lot of good . |
| 16 | And then they scraped and scraped and cleaned it and then they hung it up by the legs up , pulled it up to the steading , up to the ceiling . |
| 17 | And despite Wednesday 's 2–0 cup collapse to Cookstown , coach Mark Sinnamon insists his young warriors can come through their toughest test since the 1986 Irish Senior Cup final when they pulled themselves up by the bootlaces to beat Three Rock Rovers . |
| 18 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 19 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 20 | They rang one up in the morning to say why are n't you here ? |
| 21 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 22 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 23 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But they carried us up in the air ! |
| 25 | ‘ So it will confuse the trackers mightily — especially since I think they picked us up at the Luxembourg border crossing , then followed us in our Mercedes down the autobahn . ’ |
| 26 | He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action . |
| 27 | Then they backed it up to the front door and they all charged inside . ’ |
| 28 | They held her up to the window , and she was crying and banging on the glass as we drove away . ’ |
| 29 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 30 | He rose to his feet , wiped his hands on his jeans , then beckoned them to follow him up to the house . |