Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now obviously B does follow quite properly from A but let's start off with Mr Williamson picking up the question , Is the policy required and if so does it give everybody sufficient guidance . |
| 2 | Malcolm Macleod sang a heroic song in Gaelic , with the boatmen and the Reverend Mr McQueen taking up the chorus . |
| 3 | Mr Browning drew up a chair for her , as nice as could be , and sat down himself . |
| 4 | Mr Robinson took up the case for a majority of the Castlereagh firemen who left the Fire Service because they were not prepared to uproot their families and move to Carryduff . |
| 5 | Mr Pigdon picked up the candle which had been ready to light him to bed from a shelf in an alcove by the door , and bustled past the visitor down the hall . |
| 6 | She started as though to make for the front door , but Mr Hunter held up a hand to stop her . |
| 7 | " Now that he wo n't have Ma to talk to , and there 's no Mr Blake to get up a subscription if he goes down , I 'd say he might lose heart altogether . |
| 8 | But he does n't come often , only when he wants Mr Ballantyne to put up the money for one of his schemes or projects , which Mr Ballantyne usually does for the sake of his daughter . |
| 9 | Mr McFall held up a penknife with a three-inch blade and said it could exact terrible injuries and that post-mortem examinations last year at the department of forensic medicine and science at Glasgow University showed that in 18 out of 31 stabbings , the wound was three inches or less . |
| 10 | Mr Welch geared up the company 's locomotive-manufacturing business for a much-ballyhooed revival in American railways that never happened . |