Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 2 | I visited him and he dosed up like a clam . |
| 3 | In 1904 he met up with a man named Blaney , and Young Buffalo was born . |
| 4 | He got up after a while and paced round the high-ceilinged room , looking at the layered posters and the soft toys , the two old wardrobes , the small ring-tree on the window ledge , hung with little cheap , colourful rings . |
| 5 | He moved up to a slave . |
| 6 | Int he trained up as a welder now ? |
| 7 | After months of experimentation he came up with a vanilla ice cream bar on a stick , bonded with cocoa butter to a coating of chocolate . |
| 8 | He came up with a system that he has named after himself , ‘ nanbudo ’ ( ‘ way of Nanbu ’ ) . |
| 9 | Instead , he came up with a drink that has spread its alcoholic tentacles around the globe . |
| 10 | He came up with a pair of binoculars and handed them to Culley . |
| 11 | He came up with a sugar called 2-deoxygalactose ( 2-Dgal , which bears the same relationship to the sugar galactose as 2-DG does to glucose ) . |
| 12 | Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant ! |
| 13 | He woke up with a curse and with flailing fists . |
| 14 | He turned up for a remand hearing at Redbridge court covered in baby oil to make it difficult for warders to grab hold of him . |
| 15 | There are nightclubs in the Reeperbahn which would bar him on sight if he turned up without a hat . |
| 16 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 17 | Even this was no pushover as he laybacked up towards a line of large intimidating roofs . |
| 18 | ‘ Except those missing forty-eight hours before he showed up on a roadside , ’ said Morton Stannard . |
| 19 | His income he augmented by writing pamphlets about railways , teaching an evening class in car maintenance — a subject he knew little about but which he mugged up from a handbook the night before — and , if things got bad , painting houses . |
| 20 | ‘ He followed up with a memo and I sent one back insisting he withdrew his allegations . |
| 21 | Germany 's World Cup maestro believes that in a former life he popped up as a plant — or an animal . |
| 22 | He could also be more bluntly manipulative : on one occasion he walked up to a sailor , with his girlfriend at the bar , saying , as he gave him £20 , ‘ When you 've finished with her , come and see Auntie Minton , she 's got plenty more . ’ |
| 23 | He glanced up for a moment towards the senator and Jacques Devraux . |
| 24 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 25 | He sprang up with a cry , and in the same moment the tent collapsed upon him , pinning him to the ground under its heavy folds , and the hammering rain held it there , flattened crushingly over his breast , moulding itself to every feature of his face , so that he was nearly suffocated . |
| 26 | A hand took him by the shoulder and shook him awake , and he started up with a cry , for a moment not knowing where he was or what was happening to him . |
| 27 | The gang pounced on him and knocked him to the ground — but he curled up into a ball to save himself as punches and kicks rained down . |
| 28 | the water all over his self with the wings , with his wings , then he flew up into a tree to tie |
| 29 | but when he stumped up for a brandy and soda |
| 30 | One case too many of a shopper suing after he tripped up in a supermarket is more likely to trigger reform than a hundred multimillion dollar claims against accountants . |