Example sentences of "he [verb] up [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Toby saw him take up the pile of wet flannel from beside the bath and chuck it at his face . |
| 3 | It was important for him to build up a body of allies to ensure his succession on his father 's death , but he overreached himself , was regarded as a rebel and was killed , after being defeated in battle by Chlothar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 6 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 7 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 8 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 9 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 10 | Through applying Mach 's training ideas , by putting in unpaid coaching for two or three hours a day , five days a week , and by keeping his doors open , he built up a group of 30 young sprinters in Toronto within a year . |
| 11 | I watched him as he bounded up a flight of narrow concrete steps and banged his fists on a shabby door . |
| 12 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
| 13 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 14 | He snatched up a handful of the medicaments and began distributing them himself to the coolies in the front rank . |
| 15 | Another racking fit of coughing seized him , doubling him over and ending only when he retched up a gush of phlegm and blood . |
| 16 | He lifted up a handful of burnished tawny curls and let them slide silkily through his fingers . |
| 17 | On his release from prison in 1985 , Gusty Spence , the leader of the Shankill UVF and the man convicted of the Malvern St murder , was asked about Paisley 's role and he was frankly dismissive : ‘ I have no time for Paisley 's type of religious fervour or his politics but he had no involvement in re-forming the UVF though he stirred up a lot of tension at that time for his own ends . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He climbed up the door of the next car , using the handles and window frames as footholds . |
| 20 | His eyes on Luke , he hawked up a mouthful of phlegm and spat it towards Luke 's feet . |
| 21 | He scooped up a handful of the cakes , and popped one into his mouth . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He pulled up a piece of grass and began to chew it thoughtfully . |
| 25 | He pulled up the collar of his overcoat and lit a cigarette . |
| 26 | He smashed up the nests of the Birds of Paradise , and flew off laughing . |
| 27 | Grinning like an idiot , he grabbed up the lid of the bran tub , and proceeded to defend himself . |
| 28 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 29 | Nothing is known of him until , at the age of fourteen , he took up a sort of apprenticeship with a widow near Lowestoft . |
| 30 | Having lost the Conservative party leadership contest to John Major he took up the position of President of the Board of Trade after the last election … |