Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He met up with old colleagues such as Mike Evans and Graham Knight who gave him a typically ex-London welcome . |
| 2 | Yeah must of done , he got up to three weeks to move in |
| 3 | Now living in Wimbledon , in a spacious house complete with swimming pool , Crawford went into four months ' training for his gruelling role , starting each day at 6.30am with a four-mile run across the common , which he built up to twelve miles . |
| 4 | He bolted up by five lengths ( could have been 20 ) at Kelso last time , and is very well in on just a 10lb higher mark . |
| 5 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 6 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
| 7 | He faced up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 . |
| 8 | On July 27 Robert Louis White , 46 , grand dragon of the Maryland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan , pleaded guilty to charges of illegal possession of firearms , he faced up to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 9 | He signed up for three years with an option |
| 10 | He delivered up to 90 lectures in a session in the College theatre . |
| 11 | ‘ He rang up from some baths or some place like that , said he 'd be back soon . |
| 12 | He took up in different terms the position of Polybius and Panaetius . |
| 13 | He looked up with moist eyes . |
| 14 | I think his mother died when he was young and he grew up with more books than friends maybe more Shakespeare than Mark Twain . |
| 15 | Through his maternal grandmother , Jones fancied he could trace a distinguished ancestry back to the Norman conquest , but he grew up in straitened circumstances , and money remained a problem throughout his life . |
| 16 | After fuelling he nosed up to 50,000 feet , turned to his compass course for Upper Heyford and boosted power to settle at Mach . |
| 17 | They 've got two of his own , he ended up with four birds . |