Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 2 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 3 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 4 | Now , £100 000 from the Department of Industry has enabled him to set up a full-time commercial unit to analyse samples sent from Europe as well as Britain . |
| 5 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |
| 6 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 7 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 8 | Carrie watched him go up the steep main street . |
| 9 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 10 | Mungo watched him pile up the treble twenties , thinking of the small boy adopted by the woodcutter . |
| 11 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 12 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 13 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 14 | Seldom , indeed , had he drawn up a preliminary bibliography before his attention was distracted by some new or revived interest in something entirely different . |
| 15 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 16 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 17 | However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary . |
| 18 | And we 'd go across and I would help him to couple up the various coaches and that . |
| 19 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |