Example sentences of "he [vb -s] up his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Haig Avenue boss is refusing to take anything for granted as he lines up his first game as a manager in the first round proper . |
| 2 | He takes up his new post on Monday 24th May . |
| 3 | Murray , who will be closing his own commercial operations when he takes up his new appointment at the beginning of July , faces the daunting challenge of restoring the Fruitmarket 's critical fortunes . |
| 4 | He picks up his mobile phone , dials his stockbroker in Tokyo . |
| 5 | He picks up his empty beer glass and looks at the drops moving on the bottom . |
| 6 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 7 | Chops the dwarf takes lodgings here when he ‘ goes into society ’ , CS 11 : so does Montague Tigg when he sets up his fraudulent insurance company , MC 27 ; Twemlow , seated in the window of his club , is ‘ respectfully contemplated by Pall Mall ’ , OMF ii 3 . |
| 8 | After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide . |
| 9 | He makes up his own mind , and he is his own man . |