Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a similar reply to another member who insisted that radio should give better publicity to what MPs said in the House : it was not , he said , the job of his Ministry to build up the reputation of individual MPs . |
| 2 | He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether . |
| 3 | Wells lost his tolerance of contradiction in his anxiety to tidy up the world . |
| 4 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 5 | Jessica , after a time , had said she loved him too , and grew quite fascinated by his refusal to bring up the subject of fidelity . |
| 6 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Amidst calls to bring back the birch and to inaugurate ‘ Saturday night floggings ’ for soccer hooligans , Mr William Whitelaw reaffirmed his pledge to toughen up the law by introducing a new regime of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres modelled on the Army ‘ glass house ’ system of physical drill and unrelenting discipline . |
| 8 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 9 | Brian Fletcher on Red Rum thought he was , and urged his mount to keep up the pursuit . |
| 10 | On his way to mop up the bathroom he stood before a mirror admiring his Egyptian slimness of hip . |
| 11 | As usual , Maria Grazia answered and then yelled to his mother to pick up the extension phone by her chair , in the deep underwater gloom of the living room . |
| 12 | Sturt was just off to Adelaide with his family to take up the post of Surveyor-General of South Australia , and it was a matter of great good fortune that the two met at all . |
| 13 | But Stewart dived a long way to his left to scoop up the ball one handed just inches from the turf . |
| 14 | However , Stewart dived a long way to his left to scoop up the ball one handed inches from the turf . |