Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London . |
| 2 | There was , however , some sympathy for the applicant in his desire to set up a viable farming unit . |
| 3 | And his hand picked up a dropped boot to hurl it against the crackling plastic doors . |
| 4 | We caught him as he was on his way to pick up a faulty music amplifier he was getting fixed . |
| 5 | When the British naval officer Captain ( later Admiral ) Colomb passed through Alexandria to Suez on his way to take up a new command in the anti-slavery squadron in 1868 , he wrote of the rudimentary nature of stations in Egypt . |
| 6 | In June , Sacheverell started a lengthy progress through the midlands , on his way to take up a new living in Shropshire , and virtually everywhere he went he received a rapturous reception from the local inhabitants shouting " God Bless Doctor Sacheverell " . |
| 7 | In 1986 , Peter Hillary — son of the famous Sir Edmund — became the first foreign tourist to repeat this route since that great mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton , 40 years previously , on his way to take up a consular appointment in the Chinese outpost of Kashgar . |
| 8 | Presumably there is justification when a doctor urges his patient to give up a fixed term employment because it is a danger to his health , but what of the tutor who insists that his student give up a vacation job because it will interfere with his studies ? |