Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sampling and inspecting water quality he is his own agent to decide where and when he goes to pick up a sample . |
| 2 | Bigwig he asked to bring up the rear . |
| 3 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 4 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 5 | He tried to cover up the flutter of surprise by leaning forward and telling the driver it was time to return to New Scotland Yard . |
| 6 | In this post he helped to build up the airship service into a major weapon in the war at sea . |
| 7 | He has to weigh up the possibility of a conviction for something , as opposed to the accused walking free . |
| 8 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 9 | He bent to pick up the curl of hair , which he put carefully in his pocket , next to his heart . |
| 10 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 11 | So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup . |
| 12 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 13 | In Moonraker , beautiful specimens queue to join Sir Hugo Drax 's space stud farm , unconcerned that he plans to blow up the world . |
| 14 | He stooped to pick up the tape . |
| 15 | And he vowed to keep up the fight against the benefit cheats . |
| 16 | She smiled once again , and very warmly , at the back of Tristan 's pale gold head and then at his truly Grecian profile as he turned to look up the aisle hoping — she supposed — to catch a glimpse of his bride . |
| 17 | On Monday though he intends to start up a petition asking for his greens to be reinstated . |
| 18 | If he happened to come up the way . |
| 19 | While at Oxford he began to draw up a catalogue of the fifteenth-century books in the Bodleian Library . |
| 20 | Rising again , he began to slice up the Opposition spokesman . |
| 21 | Even as Delaney hauled the line tight , with his Uzi slung across his back , he began to walk up the steel wall . |
| 22 | He traced Maldom Bada 's dissent back to March 1991 when he declined to give up the post of MPS vice-president on being appointed Minister of the Interior . |
| 23 | Then he started to foul up the air with stinging yellow smoke . |
| 24 | His difficulty is accompanied by a no doubt symptomatic increasing distrust of universals so that , in championing specificities against them , he seems to give up the attempt to validate the universals — History as Totalization — that originally formed the object of his project . |
| 25 | The van was capacious and he decided to fill up the space with a couple of sacks of fuel . |
| 26 | One night , in the privacy of their own bedroom , he decided to take up the matter again with Elizabeth . |
| 27 | When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments . |
| 28 | When this fell through he decided to set up a family business and , with his two brothers , established a nursery and contracting firm in Windermere . |
| 29 | He hopes to set up a steering group to develop ideas . |
| 30 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |