Example sentences of "he [vb -s] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 2 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 3 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 4 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 5 | JEREMY McWilliams faces the big one tomorrow when , as the first Ulster rider in the newly constituted 500cc World motor cycling championship , he lines up against the cream of the international circus at Eastern Creek , Sydney , for the Australian Grand Prix , the first round in the series . |
| 6 | He looks up at the class . |
| 7 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |
| 8 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 9 | He stands up with the assistance of the therapist : he may do his trousers up while the therapist makes sure he remains properly aligned and upright , or the therapist may fasten the trousers while the patient concentrates on standing and balancing . |
| 10 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 11 | Laban puts the wrong daughter of his in Jacob 's bed , and Jacob does not realize it till he wakes up in the morning ! |
| 12 | When he wakes up in the morning he mutters , ‘ Tell Potter , tell Potter . ’ |
| 13 | He ends up with the non-voice of Mark Knopfler but given that gentleman 's sales figures ( Dire Straits ' Brothers In Arms was the UK 's best-selling album of the 1980s ) Geldof will hardly complain about the comparison . |
| 14 | He warms up with the march-past of the Brigade of Guards , before wheeling out his spitfire , moving on to jet fighters and finishing , if he 's in a good mood , with dogfights and acrobatics . |
| 15 | Accordingly , as he leads up to the day of Pentecost , Luke is at greatest pains to maintain that the Spirit , who equipped Jesus for his mission , equips the disciples to carry it on . |
| 16 | HOW sickening that President Bush has to fend off allegations of a long-ago affair as he gears up for the US election . |
| 17 | He wheels the kind of u-turn he 's been longing to do since he saw it on Hill Street Blues and he roars up to the entrance . |
| 18 | He slouches up to the table . |
| 19 | You know , he , he looms up on the horse , you know |
| 20 | If he gets up in the middle of the night to fetch you a glass of water , then he loves you . ’ |
| 21 | Every day John and his mum go over his schoolwork to make sure he keeps up with the rest of the class . |
| 22 | He jumps up from the day-bed on which he has just sat down . |
| 23 | Super Mario exists on a sole diet of mushrooms , which he gobbles up during the game , but Mario 's favourite food is pasta . |
| 24 | The seven pound penalty he picks up in the Bagthorpe Handicap at Nottingham is negated by his apprentice jockey 's claim and he should not be missed . |
| 25 | ‘ We ‘ ave to go after that German and kill ‘ im before he catches up with the captain . ’ |
| 26 | He makes up for the boredom and emptiness of his own life by creating a dramatic emotional triangle for these puppets of his imagination , only to realise finally that his puppets are dancing to quite another tune . |
| 27 | When , in One Hundred Years of Solitude , the last Aureliano Buendía tries to persuade others of the truth of his version of certain events , he runs up against the scepticism of the local priest who , ironically , is conspicuously lacking in the certainties which he is supposed to embody : |
| 28 | If Kim does as I wish — if he comes up with the answers I want — then I will tear up this document . |
| 29 | ( He leaps up in the air and comes down in the 'splits " position . |