Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
| 2 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 3 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 4 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 5 | I guess it 's probably just that he glide up to the second part of the diphthong , has been displaced so you 've just got the first part of it left , |
| 6 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 7 | ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in . |
| 8 | She stole a look at him ; he was looking grimmer by the minute — he would n't show any mercy once he caught up with the culprits . |
| 9 | We were delighted with his debut over fences when he beat Forest Sun in a hot novice contest at Worcester and he followed up at the same course on Wednesday . |
| 10 | ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did . |
| 11 | Faces turned , bodies gave way a little , and he went up to the Cross and took the crumpled sheet . |
| 12 | ‘ So you and he went up to the villa ? |
| 13 | I slipped in by the cemetery gate , as I left , and he went up through the trees to the path by which he had made his way to join me . |
| 14 | When I got there , the organ was playing the 100th psalm , and , when it was done , Mr Coleridge rose and gave out his text , ‘ And he went up into the mountain to pray , HIMSELF ALONE . |
| 15 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 16 | As he stared down at his half-empty glass Billy became aware of Freddie watching him closely and he looked up at the schemer suddenly , fixing him with a cold stare . |
| 17 | And then the Sergeant nudged Devlin and he walked up to the desk where Cardiff was sitting . |
| 18 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 19 | Of the rest , some were already leaving Ottery to begin their careers by the time Coleridge 's own memories began , and he grew up in the schoolmaster 's house chiefly among the younger family members who remained . |
| 20 | Stoker had a poorly childhood in Dublin , and he grew up in the city of Sheridan Le Fanu who took opium and drank green tea , and wrote a truly dreadful tale about a lamia by name of Carmilla , who , as lamias often do , set out to suck the blood from a virginal girl called Laura . |
| 21 | Ken Hom was born in Arizona of Chinese parents and he grew up in the Chinese community in Chicago — a creature of two cultures . |
| 22 | The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was . |
| 23 | He wheels the kind of u-turn he 's been longing to do since he saw it on Hill Street Blues and he roars up to the entrance . |
| 24 | And he started up in the spring and the bucket he 'd been carrying had left a ridge in his hand . |
| 25 | And he pointed up to the top step . |
| 26 | As he spoke , so Ray Doyle 's voice hardened , and he stood up from the armchair , hoping that Jack Stone was getting the message : the favour was over . |
| 27 | And he ended up as the port captain for Cunard in New York . |
| 28 | If he gets up in the middle of the night to fetch you a glass of water , then he loves you . ’ |
| 29 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 30 | We told Frank that we would support him if he stood up to the little tyrant , that he would feel better if he did , citing our own experiences , mine in particular . |