Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he slowly held up the object he had carried from the car — the object he had found in the gas station . |
| 2 | In other words , rather than introducing other , more persuasive factors , he merely sets up the court as the arbiter of a medical issue , and decides that , of all the criteria involved , the crucial ones for determining how the individual is to be regarded by the law are the biological criteria . |
| 3 | And the BOR is a friendly fellow too ; he may sometimes be a rough diamond , he may swear and complain about the weather , the food , the British Government , but he shrewdly weighs up the people he meets . |
| 4 | Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’ |
| 5 | As Amiss placed the tray on the table beside Glastonbury 's bed , he quickly sized up the room . |
| 6 | She watched as he quickly sized up the situation and then took command . |
| 7 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 8 | He also built up the island 's banana trade . |
| 9 | He also built up the railway 's fleet of passenger and cargo ships sailing to Ireland and the Continent from Goole , Fleetwood , and Liverpool ; by 1914 it was the largest of any of the British railway companies . |
| 10 | Berger watched him for a while , and then he also pulled up the collar of his greatcoat and turned into the corner . |
| 11 | Thinking about the bars and wire mesh of her cage , and of how long she would have to be there , he nearly gave up the job there and then . |
| 12 | There were three girls , including Nick 's sister Linda ; the other lad was Nick 's close friend , Louis Hanvey , with whom he now propped up the school wall , waiting for the ‘ school-run Mum ’ to arrive . |
| 13 | In this passage , which is very near the end of the book , he ironically sums up the manner in which the hypocritical bureaucrats of Whitehall and Washington dealt with their own inadequacies when their major spying operation went wrong . |
| 14 | He really livened up the debate . |
| 15 | He finished this one quicker than the other two and when that was done he immediately picked up the knife and cut the next slice . |
| 16 | It is impossible that Matthew was mistaken or that he simply made up the verse as a climax to his birth story hoping that his readers would not notice . |
| 17 | The pieces were put into ten different bags and driven away by Laing after he meticulously cleaned up the Manwarings ' house in Aldersley Gardens , Barking , east London , the jury was told . |
| 18 | Living through the post-Darwinian debates , he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism . |
| 19 | He then summed up the situation in brusque style for the policeman at the other end . |
| 20 | He then brought up the £8000 to £8,000 by steering clear of the OTC , and the vicar was ecstatic that at last he seemed to be making some money . |
| 21 | Allowing for the fact that not every man would hear the call , and that the laird would wish to leave a number of men to guard the place , he then bumped up the arithmetic to suppose nine hundred inhabitants . |
| 22 | He then picked up the hat . |
| 23 | He then picked up the magazine , spied his collar on the floor and returned to the teacher . |
| 24 | He then marched up the hall , climbed on to the dais and sat down at the head of the table there , snapping his fingers for Athelstan to join him . |
| 25 | If you see a dog make a controlled attack in a Schutzhund test , that attack is always silent , except when he is holding the helper at bay in the hide , when he again calls up the pack ( his handler ) . |
| 26 | He too went up the driveway into the house . |