Example sentences of "he [vb past] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 2 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 3 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 4 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 5 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | He filled up the doorway with his uneasy bulk and there was defiance in his eyes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He climbed up the door of the next car , using the handles and window frames as footholds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He clambered up the bank to the top where the trees ended . |
| 16 | He screwed up the note into small pieces and looked around for others . |
| 17 | I must have looked uncomprehending , for he followed up the pantomime with : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 20 | It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The water in the moat was deep , and if he pulled up the drawbridge over the moat , no one could get to him . |
| 23 | He pulled up the collar of his overcoat and lit a cigarette . |
| 24 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 25 | See he smashed up the house on Christmas day . |
| 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 | 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 … |
| 29 | Since he took up the position in 1987 , closures of geriatric hospitals , partnership with the private sector , nurse regradings , NHS trusts and a review of maternity and acute services , which will cut over 1,000 hospital beds and possibly lead to a closure of a number of hospitals , are among the controversies which have raged . |
| 30 | Secure in business and society — he was a Merchant Adventurer , Muscovy merchant , and MP at the time of his marriage — Smith abandoned a conventional career in commerce when he took up the collectorship of the subsidy on imports at the port of London in 1558 . |