Example sentences of "he [vb past] up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing . |
| 2 | ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet . |
| 3 | When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty . |
| 4 | ‘ He slept like a log and when he got up in the morning and saw the car had gone he was very upset , ’ said a source . |
| 5 | He gazed up in the air and appeared to be musing to the ceiling . |
| 6 | He woke up in the middle of some night with this composed in his head . |
| 7 | ‘ … so the doctor gave him some pills , ’ Martin said , ‘ and when he woke up in the middle of the night there was a beautiful girl on his bed … diaphanous nightie , trailing blonde hair , the lot … ’ |
| 8 | Anyway he woke up in the middle of the night , sat up and spewed up all over Sandra ! |
| 9 | When he woke up in the morning , the building was raised over him ! |
| 10 | Freddie P. , a 53 year-old , single accountant presented in the casualty department of a local hospital complaining that , for the last four days , he had noticed beads of pus at the tip of his penis when he woke up in the morning . |
| 11 | When he woke up in the morning , he ran out to me . |
| 12 | If he turned up in the middle of Stephie 's visit , then tough ! |
| 13 | Just as we were leaving he turned up in the hallway . |
| 14 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 15 | He finished up in the Beefeaters . |
| 16 | Of course he finished up in the pit w in with his eyesight . |
| 17 | He finished up in the chimpanzees ' cage , hanging from the bars , while trying to retrieve his beret , stolen by one of the animals . |
| 18 | And he started up in the spring and the bucket he 'd been carrying had left a ridge in his hand . |
| 19 | The party was over and the house was in darkness when he pulled up in the courtyard and accompanied her through the front door into the hall . |
| 20 | It ca n't have been very convenient for you that time he rang up in the middle of the night drunk after someone else 's party . ’ |
| 21 | He reached up in the darkness to take hold of her face and bring it down to his mouth , glad that the murk concealed the satisfaction he wore . |
| 22 | He went up in the lift and sat down in Irina 's pleasant office . |
| 23 | The sleeping-bag he rolled up in the blankets and tied with belts so that he could carry it on his back . |
| 24 | He grew up in the capital Pretoria , a city with jacarandas , bureaucrats , uniforms . |
| 25 | Of the rest , some were already leaving Ottery to begin their careers by the time Coleridge 's own memories began , and he grew up in the schoolmaster 's house chiefly among the younger family members who remained . |
| 26 | Stoker had a poorly childhood in Dublin , and he grew up in the city of Sheridan Le Fanu who took opium and drank green tea , and wrote a truly dreadful tale about a lamia by name of Carmilla , who , as lamias often do , set out to suck the blood from a virginal girl called Laura . |
| 27 | Son told us how to do it once , so he got the book out and he said , oh , then he gave up in the end ! |
| 28 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |
| 29 | He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent . |
| 30 | He ended up in the bath which , in this house , is actually in the bathroom . ’ |