Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | As Amiss placed the tray on the table beside Glastonbury 's bed , he quickly sized up the room . |
| 5 | She watched as he quickly sized up the situation and then took command . |
| 6 | He quickly built up a reputation for his dry wit . |
| 7 | She opened her mouth again and he quickly held up a hand . |
| 8 | I remember him telling me how he once broke up a fight outside a nightclub . |
| 9 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 10 | At the request of the inhabitants , he also opened up a well from which they draw water to this day , and his name is still commemorated in the village . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He also built up the island 's banana trade . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Berger watched him for a while , and then he also pulled up the collar of his greatcoat and turned into the corner . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He really livened up the debate . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He then summed up the situation in brusque style for the policeman at the other end . |
| 22 | He then picks up a chainsaw , revs it into action and proceeds to carve the single word ‘ RIEN ( NOTHING ) ’ out of the fake Berlin wall that towers behind them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He then picked up a stool and brought it down towards her but it smashed a ceiling light . |
| 25 | He then picked up the hat . |
| 26 | He then picked up the magazine , spied his collar on the floor and returned to the teacher . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | He too went up the driveway into the house . |