Example sentences of "them up " in BNC.
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| 1 | His attorney had managed to get him to take them up again and I went to the prison to have the necessary papers signed . |
| 2 | It speaks of the separation of races , and of a world which mixes them up . |
| 3 | On twenty bloody blocks , he 'd yield them up |
| 4 | You prick , he said , I should never have let you take them up . |
| 5 | Someone may have picked them up . |
| 6 | Speeds them up . |
| 7 | And they 'd all packed them up this morning . |
| 8 | We said we 'd ring them up that afternoon to see what everybody thought . |
| 9 | Trim back fuchsias brought in from the garden and pot them up in a peat and sand mixture . |
| 10 | Leave a few marrows on the plants to ripen fully , raising them up through the foliage into the sun by resting on bricks . |
| 11 | They conserve nutrients , especially nitrogen , by taking them up in autumn and releasing them in spring . |
| 12 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
| 13 | Yes , although children pick them up much more often than adults do . |
| 14 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 15 | James — Alastair — Iain — Donald — Angus — hold them up . |
| 16 | He reached out for something outside his prison and found The Rights of Man , he concentrated on passages he knew well and summoned them up word for word . |
| 17 | Shelling peas on the sunny lawn with Janey , their help , and Janey getting red with annoyance as she and Harriet ate them up , all but seven . |
| 18 | I wake them up and we shamble along towards the Customs . |
| 19 | He cuts the tenon shoulders one at a time , and then lines them up to make a final pass if necessary . |
| 20 | To glue them up , arrange your heaviest cramps with blocks and , to save time later , go through a dry run . |
| 21 | Then , immediately , brush one surface of each joint with a slightly stiffer mix , line them up and apply the pressure . |
| 22 | The man replied ‘ I could n't pick them up . ’ |
| 23 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 24 | I saw them and felt moved to pick them up . |
| 25 | Not only will I be dealing with some of your concerns through ‘ Vet 's Corner ’ , but I am taking them up with the very people who make the food — with some eye-opening results ! |
| 26 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 27 | Kids dig them up and can scratch themselves . ’ |
| 28 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 29 | The boxes sent signals to the loops and thus to a central computer which clocked them up as tolls . |
| 30 | Mr Jordan , told the miners ' leader : ‘ The armies of mass pickets have been demobilised and the next Labour government must not call them up . |