Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 2 | In February 1922 , Hitler told his SA that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was the only thing that mattered , and a few months later he summed up the entire Party Programme in the one point : that no Jew could be a ‘ people 's comrade ’ . |
| 3 | Well he climbed up the bloody first stair . |
| 4 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 5 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 6 | Then he picked up the internal phone and pressed a button . |
| 7 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |
| 8 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 9 | Instead he summoned up the perennial fears on the East Bank of Israeli destabilisation and denounced what he said were Zionist plots to make Jordan a substitute homeland for the Palestinians . |
| 10 | His most productive bowling season was 1952 , when he chalked up the first of his five successive championships . |