Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
| 2 | In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements . |
| 3 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 4 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |
| 5 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 6 | Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies . |
| 7 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 8 | When his mother knocked on the door he pulled up the sheet . |
| 9 | Strangely enough , though , when he left Oxford he wound up the business and joined the Navy , despite the fact that he could have lived handsomely off his investments . |
| 10 | Sitting down opposite without a word he picked up the glass and emptied the contents down his throat . |
| 11 | When she returned with the money he brought up the matter of the dog's-tooth suit . |
| 12 | After a moment 's hesitation he picked up the receiver . |
| 13 | After a couple of minutes he gave up the attempt , left the tool box by the cottage wall and walked to the edge of the cliff then slithered down to the beach . |
| 14 | Having lost the Conservative party leadership contest to John Major he took up the position of President of the Board of Trade after the last election … |
| 15 | In the end he tore up the agreement in front of me . |
| 16 | It was n't brilliant oratory , no flowers of rhetoric à la Curzon , or subtle " nuances " à la Balfour , but it was good hard sound commonsense and the way he showed up the government was admirable . |
| 17 | He fills up the rivers he fills up the roads , like tentacles |
| 18 | Murphy rejects the first , accepts the second and does not actually consider the third at all ! in fact it is probably the key , since in an earlier part of his discussion he opens up the possibility of interpreting not only into ASL ( or BSL ) but also into a manual English form . |
| 19 | On 2nd & 3rd June he put up the drawings . |