Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stated that he had informed President César Gaviria Trujillo " a long time ago " of his intention to take up a post in the Higher Council for the Administration of Justice . |
| 2 | Luke 's eyes stared down into hers , his gaze drawing up a veil of heat in her body until she was suffused by a sensation that blocked out everything but his closeness . |
| 3 | His wife gave up a £20,000-a-year job as an occupational therapist to look after their child , now aged four . |
| 4 | His head popped up a second later . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Soon afterwards his father took up a post as superintendent with the Electric Telegraph Company in London . |
| 7 | Two years later he returned home to help his father set up a nursery , but the venture was unsuccessful . |
| 8 | His voice moved up a register , from baritone to tenor , and it was tinged with irritation for the first time that evening . |
| 9 | Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops . |
| 10 | The Presbyterian ministers who occupied most of the Church 's livings , however , even before his arrival set up a committee to draw up a list of the objectionable features in his works ; their report , which condemned him as a heretic for denying Original Sin , was sent to the King . |
| 11 | Wanted in Bolivia on murder charges brought as a result of the coup in July 1980 , Arce had allegedly used his position to set up a cocaine racket . |
| 12 | It was normal for a boy to start at 45 at age 14 , and for the next four years his pay went up a shilling a year . |
| 13 | His support for Darwin was not based on his ability to take up a research programme suggested by the theory proposed in the Origin . |
| 14 | His face screws up a touch more . |
| 15 | Why would he find it in his interest to ratchet up a challenge to a foreign power that has , after all , an impeccable legal position in Panama and a considerable military position ? |