Example sentences of "he [vb past] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 2 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |
| 3 | He lined up the dead centre of the target and scored with a long , spiralling burst . |
| 4 | He snatched up the green telephone on his desk and punched out an internal number . |
| 5 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 6 | He strolled up the long arcade , pausing frequently to peer in shop windows at the expensive goodies . |
| 7 | when he lifted up the slimy surprise |
| 8 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 9 | Moran looked stern and self-conscious as he drove up the short avenue . |
| 10 | Despite being in extreme pain and feeling ill , he turned up the following day at rehearsals with long sleeves disguising his burns . |
| 11 | He climbed up the outside staircase past the fountains surrounded by black-veiled women filling their pots with water and out on to the little parapeted promenade which crowned the second storey . |
| 12 | In fury he scooped up the gelatinous mess and hurled it at Fairbrother , who kicked him in the balls . |
| 13 | He scampered up the outer staircase and disappeared into the hall . |
| 14 | Heading for the Way Out sign , which guided him through a gate in the white fence bordering the platform , he started up the steep station approach . |
| 15 | He knew that the archer would have to load and winch his bow , so he rose and ran with all his force , clearing the trees , almost breathless as he stumbled up the muddy causeway leading to the main abbey gate . |
| 16 | He pulled up the wooden chair from beside the bed and sat down . |
| 17 | Anyway , he rang up the following day and said ‘ Hear you 've gone bust . |
| 18 | He took up the remote controller and did the ever-popular ‘ Channel Hop ’ . |
| 19 | They walked round all day with their heads slumped between their shoulders like this ’ — he took up the appropriate attitude — ‘ instead of like this , as the British do . ’ |
| 20 | He took up the daily routine of his swim again , and one afternoon when he was in the sea there was a visit to the bungalow by Timothy Gedge . |
| 21 | He brought up the old goat 's collar . |
| 22 | He flicked up the left-hand indicator and stopped the car . |
| 23 | He flipped up the short skirt , so that it rested across her back . |
| 24 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 25 | Elias Hrawi , the West Beirut-based ( Christian ) President , reportedly responded by saying that there would be no deal with Aoun until he gave up the presidential palace at Baabda and the Army command at Yarzeh . |
| 26 | In February 1922 , Hitler told his SA that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was the only thing that mattered , and a few months later he summed up the entire Party Programme in the one point : that no Jew could be a ‘ people 's comrade ’ . |
| 27 | He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port . |
| 28 | He held up the soft peach wool jacket that Kate intended to wear , but there was a sudden rueful expression on his face as he met her eyes again . |
| 29 | He held up the green ribbon . |
| 30 | He held up the buff folder . |