Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 2 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 3 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 4 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 5 | Seldom , indeed , had he drawn up a preliminary bibliography before his attention was distracted by some new or revived interest in something entirely different . |
| 6 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |