Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [vb infin] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 2 | He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge . |
| 3 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 4 | He 'll follow up the contact , phone Steven , drop by and see him . |
| 5 | He could overrule , as it were , by sending " public " preachers , for example to preach a crusade and , most important , he could build up the power of the monasteries by granting or confirming exemption from the diocesan . |
| 6 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 7 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 8 | If only he could pick up the rock and hurl it , defiantly , to reciprocate the violence with such a true aim , that it would smash whatever the chosen target . |
| 9 | He could pick up the fear . |
| 10 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 11 | A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor . |
| 12 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 13 | he used to go to the house and he 'd measure up the body and I |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd go up the coffee stalls and peddle his arse for money . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ One of the things he did was this : On the quiet he 'd heat up the ends of two thin iron rods . |
| 16 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 17 | Shortly after this , he decided to ditch the one-liner style of stand-up and get rid of his immortal catch-phrase ( ‘ Put that chicken away , missus ! ’ ) in favour of a more confessional comedy routine ; he would gather up the rough , rotting scraps of his experience and weave them into balmy theatrical monologues . |
| 18 | Later he would gather up the apples ( and shot ) and put them in his cider press — the stones of which were braced with lead straps . |
| 19 | On March 2 Pedro Mendes Jurado became the new Attorney General ; he stated that he would step up the battle against terrorism and drug trafficking . |
| 20 | The warning by a deranged Muslim guerrilla that he would blow up the Visegrad hydroelectric dam unless Serb militiamen ceased their artillery attacks on Visegrad and Foca was not the only liquid that threatened to flood Bosnia-Hercegovina this week . |
| 21 | The head said he would chase up the documents . |
| 22 | He would tear up the lead card , and would storm back to his desk . |
| 23 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |
| 24 | Then he would pick up the silver hair-brush and groom her hair in slow strokes from its dark roots to its glowing auburn ends . |
| 25 | " He would write up the result on the file later . |
| 26 | Once a fortnight , he would come up the avenue and round that last bend and — with a tightening in his bowels — see it there , becalmed in the grass . |
| 27 | He will take up the duties of Counsellor , Atomic Energy , on August 17 and succeeds Chris Loughlin , who has been appointed Director , Transport Division , from September 1 |
| 28 | He will take up the £51,000 a year job as soon as possible and is expected to have to give up his chairmanship of the all-party defence select committee . |
| 29 | ‘ Once he is quite well , he will take up the reins and the business will be booming again , ’ she said out loud . |
| 30 | He can break up the rhythm with the deceptive powers of a confidence trickster and made something happen from seemingly stagnant positions . |