Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The warning by a deranged Muslim guerrilla that he would blow up the Visegrad hydroelectric dam unless Serb militiamen ceased their artillery attacks on Visegrad and Foca was not the only liquid that threatened to flood Bosnia-Hercegovina this week . |
| 32 | Alec had been an F in first year , an F in second year and he was worried — no , perhaps terrified is a better word — that he would end up an F even in his third year . |
| 33 | The head said he would chase up the documents . |
| 34 | In case of opposition he would follow up a tap from his truncheon with a butt from his head , which was reported as ‘ generally conclusive ’ . |
| 35 | He would tear up the lead card , and would storm back to his desk . |
| 36 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |
| 37 | Then he would pick up the silver hair-brush and groom her hair in slow strokes from its dark roots to its glowing auburn ends . |
| 38 | " He would write up the result on the file later . |
| 39 | Once a fortnight , he would come up the avenue and round that last bend and — with a tightening in his bowels — see it there , becalmed in the grass . |
| 40 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 41 | However in many ways , Caulfield is the complete opposite of Lucy Snowe ; where she is quiet and retiring , and hides her feelings , Holden speaks his ; for example , he will strike up a conversation with anyone he meets — at one point in the book , Holden asks his taxi-driver if he knows where the ducks in Central Park go when their lake freezes ! |
| 42 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will set up an inquiry into the structure of local government in Northern Ireland . |
| 43 | He will take up the duties of Counsellor , Atomic Energy , on August 17 and succeeds Chris Loughlin , who has been appointed Director , Transport Division , from September 1 |
| 44 | He will take up the £51,000 a year job as soon as possible and is expected to have to give up his chairmanship of the all-party defence select committee . |
| 45 | ‘ Once he is quite well , he will take up the reins and the business will be booming again , ’ she said out loud . |
| 46 | He 's an expert on the buildings history and if the building is bought up and say , converted to offices , would like one or 2 rooms put by so he can set up a museum of psychiatry . |
| 47 | He can break up the rhythm with the deceptive powers of a confidence trickster and made something happen from seemingly stagnant positions . |
| 48 | If he does it 'll be interesting to see whether or not he might be the player to come in and take Gary 's place and see whether he can strike up a partnership with . |
| 49 | He 's always talking about finding a way to get rich so he can start up a place of his own one day in England . ’ |
| 50 | " If at the end of seven years , he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it , or is able to lay down a sheet of 16 's correctly , the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced . " |
| 51 | This gentleman thinks that he can bring up a child |
| 52 | He 's threatening to fly back to Paris this evening unless he can fix up a meeting with you . ’ |
| 53 | Joe 's reducing a dislocated thumb if he can screw up the courage , and Amy 's changing a dressing . |
| 54 | He can work up the ocean to scuds of foam when he 's cross . |
| 55 | Now Mr. Lennis is turning them all into tramps , sending them all over the place wherever he can pick up a cargo . |
| 56 | ‘ Obviously , he 's a big man and we can bang the ball up to him so he can pick up the crumbs . |
| 57 | The ball over the top , the low firm crosses driven in so that he can pick up the pieces . |