Example sentences of "he [vb past] up the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 2 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 3 | When I told him I could not come he turned up the collar of his coat and walked away , looking at the pavement beside the unlit shop windows , hands deep in his pockets , and passed into the night going towards the Bridge of Three Eyes . |
| 4 | He climbed up the door of the next car , using the handles and window frames as footholds . |
| 5 | He pulled up the collar of his overcoat and lit a cigarette . |
| 6 | Grinning like an idiot , he grabbed up the lid of the bran tub , and proceeded to defend himself . |
| 7 | Having lost the Conservative party leadership contest to John Major he took up the position of President of the Board of Trade after the last election … |
| 8 | Secure in business and society — he was a Merchant Adventurer , Muscovy merchant , and MP at the time of his marriage — Smith abandoned a conventional career in commerce when he took up the collectorship of the subsidy on imports at the port of London in 1558 . |
| 9 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 10 | Having trained as a photo-process engraver , he took up the post of demonstrator in a firm in Gothenburg , Sweden , in 1907 . |
| 11 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 12 | Returning to England , he took up the post of sub-warden of Toynbee Hall , the universities ' settlement in the East End of London , 1920–9 , serving also as a co-opted member of the London County Council education committee , 1925–31 . |
| 13 | In July , last year , he took up the post of environmental adviser . |
| 14 | Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies . |
| 15 | Shortly before he took up the study of genetics , the American biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan wrote a book , Evolution and Adaptation ( 1903 ) , arguing that evolution was governed solely by the production of saltations , and had nothing to do with adapting the species to its environment . |
| 16 | In 1747 , Stukeley could stand Stamford no longer and he took up the living of St. George 's in Bloomsbury , London , thus ending his associations with the town . |
| 17 | The Elves of Nagarythe were numerous and well-versed in sorcery , being descendants of those grim Elves who had followed Aenarion after he took up the Sword of Khaine . |
| 18 | In an address to a potentially hostile assembly of Protestant ministers , he brought up the subject of his religion and emphasized his belief in a strict separation of the affairs of state and those of the church . |
| 19 | When she returned with the money he brought up the matter of the dog's-tooth suit . |
| 20 | He totted up the number of points according to guidelines worked out by Denplan with categories from A to E. In my case , the extent of dental work meant I scored 158 points , putting me in the most expensive category , E. |
| 21 | During this time he developed an interest in art , to such an extent that he gave up the security of work in 1846 . |
| 22 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 23 | Such was his disillusionment that he gave up the practice of medicine for a while and supported himself and his growing family by undertaking translation work , at the same time pursuing his chemical and botanical studies . |
| 24 | He summed up the system of increasing productivity plus high-pressure advertising and salesmanship , plus mass communications , in the word Admass — ‘ the creation of the mass mind , the mass man . ’ |
| 25 | Then he ran up the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 26 | He held up the can of lager . |
| 27 | He held up the packet of film against the light and made non-committal noises . |
| 28 | He hurried up the aisle of the church , showing his palms by way of apology when he reached his place . |
| 29 | The process of information-gathering which ensued was certainly no more radical than that sanctioned by Nicholas I when he set up the Committee of 6 December 1826 . |
| 30 | He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had . |