Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 2 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 8 | Seldom , indeed , had he drawn up a preliminary bibliography before his attention was distracted by some new or revived interest in something entirely different . |
| 9 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |