Example sentences of "he be [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah and erm yeah , he 's keep up the joke . |
| 2 | Well you know what he 's trying to do , he 's trying up the claim so when back , he 's still gon na get the amount that he wants so he said t to Jim something about , he is n't paying the insurance I said you 're joking ! |
| 3 | He 's back at the main menu , he 's calling up the directory , the very List of Lists , the brain surgeon 's own encephalogram . |
| 4 | He 's going up the ladder like a rocket , is n't he ? |
| 5 | And like a magician he 's conjured up the spirit to keep going after horrific abuse . |
| 6 | She paddled in the shallow water for a few moments before joining Stephen where he was setting up the barbecue in a shaded spot . |
| 7 | He was looking up the driveway , trying to make out the shape of the house through the trees . |
| 8 | It 's easy to say he was led up the garden path by a couple of pointed media questions , but I do n't accept that . |
| 9 | It was a stand-off , he was picking up the Yankee jargon . |
| 10 | But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally ! |
| 11 | A question , it was , whether he was propping up the door , or the door was propping him ! |
| 12 | and I 'm not entirely sure , Marcus did phone me and say , at one point , when he was making up the mailing list , he 's had three hundred copies of that made of the extract and he was kind of you know , sniffing around for who to send them |
| 13 | He was heading up the President 's getaway operation at the Abbey . |
| 14 | He was lifting up the lamb 's head , pulling on its muzzle to make it bleat . |
| 15 | He had not tried , however , and now he was tying up the boat and expertly folding down the sails . |