Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 If he comes up with the right solution then the destiny of the championship could be decided .
32 If Kim does as I wish — if he comes up with the answers I want — then I will tear up this document .
33 If he turned up in the middle of Stephie 's visit , then tough !
34 I did not like the idea very much as Sid was a smoker , and if he lit up during the night it was possible that we both could end up with a Blighty , or worse !
35 He and Sergeant Robins had obviously tried each other 's patience to the limits , but he cheered up at the sight of Dalgliesh and enquired with childish belligerence :
36 But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory .
37 I thought he was wandering off , but he went up to the counter and asked for a coffee .
38 They are wrong in their views of righteousness , supposing Jesus to be a sinner like themselves — and worse because he ended up in the place of cursing on a cross ( cf.
39 Laban puts the wrong daughter of his in Jacob 's bed , and Jacob does not realize it till he wakes up in the morning !
40 While he went up to the bar to order , Ellie settled back in her seat , and , with a rather sad light in her eyes , watched him .
41 All the images that had been in Patrick 's mind while he drove up to the Barbican the previous morning formed again in his imagination .
42 My old mate , Malc Bassford , had 3 lb next to me — he is definitely getting better as that is his best weight since he bagged up on the River Cam 20 years ago .
43 Old Hewlett-Packard Co hands say that back in their day Lew Platt never looked to be a contender for the presidency : they are gratified to see him elevated since he came up on the Unix side and wonder how much should be read into that .
44 Athelstan went into the nave and sat at the base of a pillar , legs crossed , whilst he stared up at the high altar behind the rood screen .
45 Before he stepped up for the most nerve-shattering moment of his career Guennady Grishin had kept his nerve to fire the Russians into a 4-3 advantage .
46 ‘ We ‘ ave to go after that German and kill ‘ im before he catches up with the captain . ’
47 The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) .
48 I said well he reckons it does , he says when he filled up at the garage it were full , he says we had n't got back and it was between the half and three quarters , I said oh I never looked at it
49 When he woke up in the morning , the building was raised over him !
50 Freddie P. , a 53 year-old , single accountant presented in the casualty department of a local hospital complaining that , for the last four days , he had noticed beads of pus at the tip of his penis when he woke up in the morning .
51 When he woke up in the morning , he ran out to me .
52 ‘ … so the doctor gave him some pills , ’ Martin said , ‘ and when he woke up in the middle of the night there was a beautiful girl on his bed … diaphanous nightie , trailing blonde hair , the lot … ’
53 I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism .
54 He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor .
55 He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table .
56 When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty .
57 He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing .
58 ‘ He slept like a log and when he got up in the morning and saw the car had gone he was very upset , ’ said a source .
59 GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 .
60 Ben Sira praised the fathers of old and described the High Priest Simon son of Jochanan in his majestic appearance when he went up to the altar ( 50.11 ) .
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