Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed to live up to this amiable recipe , however , and there was considerable discussion of the issue , discursive rather than purposeful , before dinner . |
| 2 | He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers . |
| 3 | When he failed to show up by half past eight they did begin to wonder . |
| 4 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 5 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 6 | He 'd pulled up behind one of the newspaper vans , except it was n't a newspaper van . |
| 7 | He imagined opening up on these feeble wretches . |
| 8 | Patrick escaped from the party on the excuse that he needed to check up on some security arrangements . |
| 9 | The leg-spinner , Ian Salisbury , proved the most expensive , conceding 142 runs from just 29 overs , though he did end up with two wickets including that of Tendulkar . |
| 10 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |
| 11 | He picked up his clock and put it by his bed because he had to wake up at seven o'clock . |
| 12 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 13 | At first I was doubtful about taking him , for he did not look strong ; but the Sandfords assured us that he had stood up to several long treks with them , invariably producing good meals even under the most unfavourable conditions , that he never interfered with other people , and was always ready to lend a hand at any job . |
| 14 | Because of the circumstances under which most replacement gutters are fitted , however , they may not join up as beautifully as you 'd like , which may mean that they need more regular cleaning — but do n't rush to criticise your builder — it probably was n't his fault if he had to join up to existing work . |
| 15 | Despite repeated rape and electric shock , Paulina never mentioned the name of her lover , who married her after she was released , though he had taken up with another woman . |
| 16 | Incredibly , he had taken up with those student thugs , and they had taken him out drinking until they were all blind drunk — ‘ So drunk , nobody remembered what had happened next day . ’ |
| 17 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 18 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 19 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 21 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 22 | Balcon moved , with several of the scriptwriters and directors he had brought up through Gaumont-British , to the American company , MGM . |
| 23 | In March they returned to England , and he attempted to catch up with all the work and correspondence he had left behind . |
| 24 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced on Dec. 17 , despite a constitutional ban , that he intended to dispatch up to 1,500 German troops . |