Example sentences of "he be [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , he is climbing up the weights and may find this trip a shade on the short side .
2 Yeah and erm yeah , he 's keep up the joke .
3 Well you know what he 's trying to do , he 's trying up the claim so when back , he 's still gon na get the amount that he wants so he said t to Jim something about , he is n't paying the insurance I said you 're joking !
4 He 's propping up the daisies .
5 He 's back at the main menu , he 's calling up the directory , the very List of Lists , the brain surgeon 's own encephalogram .
6 He 's goes up the Cricketers .
7 He 's going up the ladder like a rocket , is n't he ?
8 And like a magician he 's conjured up the spirit to keep going after horrific abuse .
9 He 's sawn up the logs. ,
10 She paddled in the shallow water for a few moments before joining Stephen where he was setting up the barbecue in a shaded spot .
11 He was looking up the driveway , trying to make out the shape of the house through the trees .
12 They have taken Fergusson the teacher , while he was nailing up the lists , and stripped him and tarred him — ‘ Donald — you would not do that !
13 It 's easy to say he was led up the garden path by a couple of pointed media questions , but I do n't accept that .
14 It was a stand-off , he was picking up the Yankee jargon .
15 It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman .
16 But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally !
17 A question , it was , whether he was propping up the door , or the door was propping him !
18 and I 'm not entirely sure , Marcus did phone me and say , at one point , when he was making up the mailing list , he 's had three hundred copies of that made of the extract and he was kind of you know , sniffing around for who to send them
19 He was heading up the President 's getaway operation at the Abbey .
20 He was lifting up the lamb 's head , pulling on its muzzle to make it bleat .
21 He had not tried , however , and now he was tying up the boat and expertly folding down the sails .
22 And he had this this erm casting of a plane you know he was cleaning up the edges gave the game away of course then .
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