Example sentences of "he [verb] up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got up to fetch a cloth to wipe the tiny mess , at the same time bringing another strip of herring which Eyvør accepted daintily before tucking its small unpuffin-like beak into its back feathers and dozing off again . |
| 2 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 3 | He had become an Untouchable , Trent thought with sudden bitterness as he glanced up to catch a look , almost of horror , on Mariana 's face . |
| 4 | He hung up studying the information . |
| 5 | And when irons he he boils up boils a saucepan of water and puts the saucepan over it ! |
| 6 | He leapt up to take the mug from her shaking hand . |
| 7 | He leapt up to discover the truth . |
| 8 | ‘ Bastards ! ’ he said loudly , and repeated the oath as he reached up to untie the string that held the body of the puppy . |
| 9 | Even from this distance she could see the way muscles rippled across his chest as he reached up to unlock the window , the wedge of dark hair that arrowed down from his collar-bone , and she felt heat run along her veins . |
| 10 | He looked up to see the restaurant door slam and was left with nothing but a whiff of her perfume . |
| 11 | The first specks of light rain fell on Trent 's face as he looked up to see the motor yacht 's captain studying him from over the brilliantly-varnished taffrail . |
| 12 | ‘ He gave up chasing the girls , did he ? ’ |
| 13 | He gave up playing the field and married a year ago , to a sinewy woman called Cheryl Berkoff . |
| 14 | Look at him — throwin' his eye up your skirt — and it no time at all since he gave up wettin' the bed ! ’ |
| 15 | She kicks the high-flying American banker out of the family home and he winds up renting a room in the home of lonely divorcee Monica . |
| 16 | He ended up getting the death penalty , not for murder , but for molesting a 12-year-old . |
| 17 | He ended up staying a couple of months . ’ |
| 18 | The next best option was to take a BSc degree in coal-mining — and that was how he ended up becoming a mining engineer instead of a teacher , which in all probability is the career he would have followed if he had managed to fulfil his original goal of studying geography . |