Example sentences of "he would [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he used to go to the house and he 'd measure up the body and I |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd go up the coffee stalls and peddle his arse for money . ’ |
| 3 | And he 'd look up a book . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the things he did was this : On the quiet he 'd heat up the ends of two thin iron rods . |
| 5 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 6 | One day he would open up a book — some new sword-and-sorcery trilogy , probably — and something he would read there would trigger what he knew was locked away in his own brain somewhere . |
| 7 | But apart from that he , he was a , he was er humorous too by nature and er he was , he was quite free in as much as if you made an approach to him , and he understood that you were n't there just for fun , he would set up a meeting and discuss it with you , er and go into details and at the same time , give you an answer at the earliest possible moment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Alec had been an F in first year , an F in second year and he was worried — no , perhaps terrified is a better word — that he would end up an F even in his third year . |
| 13 | The head said he would chase up the documents . |
| 14 | In case of opposition he would follow up a tap from his truncheon with a butt from his head , which was reported as ‘ generally conclusive ’ . |
| 15 | He would tear up the lead card , and would storm back to his desk . |
| 16 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " He would write up the result on the file later . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |