Example sentences of "he [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 2 | And we 'd go across and I would help him to couple up the various coaches and that . |
| 3 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 4 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 5 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 6 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 7 | Turry has to be the best-armed hero of all time and when he picks up a few power-ups you 'd think he was invincible . |
| 8 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 9 | Instead he summoned up the perennial fears on the East Bank of Israeli destabilisation and denounced what he said were Zionist plots to make Jordan a substitute homeland for the Palestinians . |
| 10 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 11 | He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed . |
| 12 | He picked up the dry droppings and crumbled them in his hand . |
| 13 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 14 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 15 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 16 | ‘ My lipstick fell out of my bag , you see , and he trod on it — not on the carpet , thank heaven ! — so he picked up the mangled remains and asked if he could get me another . |
| 17 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |
| 18 | Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin . |
| 19 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 20 | ( a not unusual event ) he leaps up the six flights of stairs and arrives at the top as cool as a cucumber , followed by a very out-of-breath Orderly Officer . |