Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would see it through , he would find the Way Out , And he might not even stop at simply escaping ; he might just smash up the whole foul contraption of their testing and imprisonment apparatus — this " life " — while he was about It . |
| 2 | He tried to hit me , kept pummelling me with his podgy fists , but he could n't summon up the necessary enthusiasm . |
| 3 | If he could n't keep up the whacked — out , languid image , you feel he 'd be ripping himself apart with guilt and recriminations . |
| 4 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
| 5 | Therefore instead of walking all the way along the cliffs that morning , he decided to go down to the beach on the last lap of his journey , knowing that Edna and her small charge could well be at the far end , from whence he could quickly scramble up the pathway to the Tremayne property . |
| 6 | see he was not as pretty good as the other , I would n't like to say whether he could really turn up the application |
| 7 | The main argument seems to be whether he could morally take up the titles of Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith . |
| 8 | Sometimes he was in such pain , he could hardly hobble up the yard . |
| 9 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 10 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 11 | He did n't want that and he would n't give up the mistress either — not for three years . ’ |
| 12 | He would n't pick up the tab for anyone else . |
| 13 | He will surely end up the county 's player of the year . |
| 14 | In 1992 a future king renounces the wife he no longer loves but says he wo n't give up the throne . |
| 15 | He suffers from gout , but he wo n't give up the port , you know . |
| 16 | ‘ He wo n't divide up the chess books , ’ Mrs Polgar said . |