Example sentences of "he [verb] up the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Persistent ill health induced him to give up the surveyorship at Christ 's Hospital in January 1816 and that of the Bethlehem Hospital the following year .
2 When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead .
3 Toby saw him take up the pile of wet flannel from beside the bath and chuck it at his face .
4 Everyone watched him stride up the aisle towards the door at the back of the auditorium .
5 John Lowe 's mental attainments at the age of 18 were so great that his father saw nothing incongruous in advising him to take up the law as a profession .
6 Chris Hani , chief of staff of MK , was not allocated a portfolio , pending a request by the SACP to release him to take up the post of deputy SACP general secretary full-time .
7 When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim .
8 He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand .
9 Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale .
10 But he got up the front of the line and he got the job .
11 A brilliant if at times eccentric leader , he built up the press from scratch into a respected publishing house , noted in particular for its work in the literary field , and in machine intelligence , now known as artificial intelligence .
12 So how did the work out because as far as I know the the riveter got the cash and then he divvied up the money between
13 Roger North , the young Surrey allrounder , is the hero , with strong love interest , and a climax to tempt film-makers as he climbs up the gasholder at The Oval with the villain .
14 He filled up the doorway with his uneasy bulk and there was defiance in his eyes .
15 When I told him I could not come he turned up the collar of his coat and walked away , looking at the pavement beside the unlit shop windows , hands deep in his pockets , and passed into the night going towards the Bridge of Three Eyes .
16 He opened up the Museum to scholars and architectural historians by writing many articles on Soane and his collections for the architectural press in the 1920s and also embarked on a series of publications about Soane : The Works of Sir John Soane ( 1924 ) , an edition of Soane 's Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture ( 1929 ) and The Portrait of Sir John Soane ( 1927 ) , as well as a number of pamphlets .
17 And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in .
18 He climbed up the door of the next car , using the handles and window frames as footholds .
19 Turning up the collar of his Burberry against the chill morning air , he climbed up the slope to the rim of the hollow and stood looking down at the car .
20 He clambered up the bank to the top where the trees ended .
21 He screwed up the note into small pieces and looked around for others .
22 I must have looked uncomprehending , for he followed up the pantomime with :
23 In order to do this he followed up the material throughout its various processes , and plotted its progress on a chart or series of charts .
24 DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home .
25 It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry .
26 It was a collection she had last seen in the hands of William Fosdyke , Signor Fixit , as he locked up the house after her first visit .
27 He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east .
28 Invited to join the King , with his companions the Chancellor Colonel Sapt and his aide-de-camp Fritz von Tarlenheim , on the ruler 's last night of freedom before he takes up the burden of the Crown , Rassendyll is conveniently available to step in when the monarch collapses , drugged by wine presented by his jealous brother Black Michael .
29 Murphy rejects the first , accepts the second and does not actually consider the third at all ! in fact it is probably the key , since in an earlier part of his discussion he opens up the possibility of interpreting not only into ASL ( or BSL ) but also into a manual English form .
30 The water in the moat was deep , and if he pulled up the drawbridge over the moat , no one could get to him .
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