Example sentences of "he [verb] up the [noun] [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 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 4 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 5 | Toby saw him take up the pile of wet flannel from beside the bath and chuck it at his face . |
| 6 | Everyone watched him stride up the aisle towards the door at the back of the auditorium . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 10 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 11 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 12 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 13 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He filled up the doorway with his uneasy bulk and there was defiance in his eyes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He climbed up the door of the next car , using the handles and window frames as footholds . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He clambered up the bank to the top where the trees ended . |
| 26 | He screwed up the note into small pieces and looked around for others . |
| 27 | I must have looked uncomprehending , for he followed up the pantomime with : |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 30 | It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry . |