Example sentences of "he [vb past] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few seconds the panel in front of him rose up . |
| 2 | In obedience to Angel One 's harsh command , the two Apostles flanking him jerked up their weapons . |
| 3 | The tide was close in by now , and his footprints behind him filled up with water , gleaming . |
| 4 | Extensive efforts to trace him turned up nothing . |
| 5 | ‘ I told my Dad to keep him locked up or on his lead . |
| 6 | ‘ You must keep him locked up . |
| 7 | The ‘ credulous father ’ Gloucester is easily manipulated into setting a guard to catch Edgar ( King Lear , 11. i.17 ) , and Edmund , who has been ‘ sheltering ’ Edgar ( that is , keeping him locked up , where he can not confront his father ) , dupes him into fleeing , so that Gloucester can order him to be pursued and killed ( 56–63 ) . |
| 8 | There are rumours that it was his African neighbours who wanted him locked up . |
| 9 | The police want him locked up but say they 're powerless to detain him . |
| 10 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 11 | They left with him tied up like a criminal . |
| 12 | And as Gabriel walked away , the Mason was heard to say loudly , ‘ I hope you keep him tied up at night . |
| 13 | One of the medics attending him looked up at me . |
| 14 | He imitated a shrill , foolish voice and Tug could tell that it was a good imitation because the girl next to him looked up sharply . |
| 15 | A successful dealer sitting opposite him looked up : " Yes " , he said . |
| 16 | For a moment there was silence , then the boy spoke again , the whole of him gathered up into the movement of his lips . |
| 17 | I like Rossmayne and I did n't want him mixed up in a scandal . |
| 18 | But him put up a fight . |
| 19 | During a sojourn in Northumbria one of these ‘ academic high-flyers ’ remained implacably ‘ not one of us ’ , and I heard him summed up in the following terms : |
| 20 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |
| 21 | And then that other was a member of parliament and I knew it 's erm I knew he , I think it was erm oh I can see him stood up there . |
| 22 | He was well-aware of the sense in which he made up what happened to him , imagined his misfortune . |
| 23 | Paul , he made up covered with bullet wounds . |
| 24 | He made up his mind — and won |
| 25 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 26 | While sobbing , he made up his mind . |
| 27 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 28 | He made up his mind to tell Miss Claybury in the morning that things must change , otherwise he could no longer stay in her employ . |
| 29 | Finally he made up his mind about something : he asked Changez about Jamila and how she was . |
| 30 | He had a light lunch in a small sandwich bar off the street called Crutched Friars , where monks once hobbled with one leg bound behind them to cause pain for the greater glory of God , and he made up his mind what he would do . |