Example sentences of "he [vb -s] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |
| 2 | Roger North , the young Surrey allrounder , is the hero , with strong love interest , and a climax to tempt film-makers as he climbs up the gasholder at The Oval with the villain . |
| 3 | He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east . |
| 4 | Invited to join the King , with his companions the Chancellor Colonel Sapt and his aide-de-camp Fritz von Tarlenheim , on the ruler 's last night of freedom before he takes up the burden of the Crown , Rassendyll is conveniently available to step in when the monarch collapses , drugged by wine presented by his jealous brother Black Michael . |
| 5 | Murphy rejects the first , accepts the second and does not actually consider the third at all ! in fact it is probably the key , since in an earlier part of his discussion he opens up the possibility of interpreting not only into ASL ( or BSL ) but also into a manual English form . |
| 6 | He tosses up the Clothes with a barbarous swing over his Shoulders , disorders the whole Economy of my Bed , leaves me half naked , and my whole Night 's Comfort is the tuneable Serenade of that wakeful Nightingale , his Nose . |
| 7 | He tots up the maths in his head — five units for last year 's domestic season and the World Cup , a unit each for 1992 's five domestic tests , two more for the venture to South Africa and four for the major tour of Ireland and Wales . |
| 8 | The buyer , on the other hand , wishes to put off acceptance as long as possible , so that he can be sure the goods are totally satisfactory to him before he gives up the opportunity of rejecting them . |
| 9 | And he moves up the scale from the creation of individual regional statutes , to address the law enforcement problems caused by peculiar geography , to the place of the law in the body politic . |
| 10 | Scott the collie has his work cut out as he rounds up the sheep at Camp Farm . |
| 11 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 12 | Then he walks up the aisle in the centre of the classroom , shooting at the students lying beneath the desks . |
| 13 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |
| 14 | He 's not just someone who can communicate a point well ; he sums up the point in himself . |