Example sentences of "he [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered him propped up by the nurses , waving his little hands about . |
| 2 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 3 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 4 | Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively . |
| 5 | He had behaved disgracefully on Thursday and I was going to make him face up to the fact on Friday . |
| 6 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 7 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 8 | Yeah , it 's just , I do n't want him to start up in the summer again |
| 9 | I saw him go up to the house- ’ |
| 10 | You say you saw him go up to the house and take something ? |
| 11 | For a moment there was silence , then the boy spoke again , the whole of him gathered up into the movement of his lips . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll bet she 'd like him to end up at the foot of the cliff , ’ said a voice . |
| 13 | You can not imagine him putting up with the committee which apparently advised Elizabeth II in 1960 to buy an all too committee-like selection of modern artists — Nolan , Lowry , Hitchens , Davie — chosen , one suspects , so that none of the great men felt left out . |
| 14 | They certainly should not have been letting him curl up on the floor next to Badger . |
| 15 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 16 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 17 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 18 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 19 | JEREMY McWilliams faces the big one tomorrow when , as the first Ulster rider in the newly constituted 500cc World motor cycling championship , he lines up against the cream of the international circus at Eastern Creek , Sydney , for the Australian Grand Prix , the first round in the series . |
| 20 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |
| 21 | I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism . |
| 22 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 23 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 24 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 25 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 26 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 27 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
| 28 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
| 29 | He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing . |
| 30 | ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet . |