Example sentences of "he [verb] up [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lined up first in the 100 metres . |
| 2 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 3 | He thought he 'd got too much club for his second shot on the 17th , and he did n't hit it all that hard — a 5-iron — so he came up short of the green , after being in the left-hand semi-rough . |
| 4 | Then when we went on the train to Italy and all the way through France and Switzerland he chatted up one of the Marias , and when I tipped his minestrone soup over his head on Milan station he said : ‘ You 'll have to excuse my wife , she 's just an ignorant peasant . ’ |
| 5 | He grew up oppressed by the sense of belonging to a broken culture , deprived of his inheritance . |
| 6 | He was speaking at the Age Resource Awards ceremony in London where he mixed up three of the commendations , much to the amusement of the mainly elderly audience . |
| 7 | Has he signed up one of the most formidable Arabs to ride for his expanding pro team ? |
| 8 | One man was so overcome by the gig he jumped up next to the band and harassed the crowd into giving them a standing ovation . |
| 9 | After qualifying , he settled at Bath , where he set up one of the first acute psychiatric units in a general hospital in the country . |
| 10 | He ended up eighth on the grid and said : ‘ The car feels much better here than it did in South Africa . |
| 11 | One day he picked up one of the elongated putters used to such devastating effect on the fabulously rich US Seniors ' Tour by such as Orville Moody , a notoriously fragile performer on the greens until he turned 50 . |
| 12 | With a swift movement he picked up one of the Lal Khals and kissed it on its head . |
| 13 | He picked up one of the bundles and walked away quickly . |
| 14 | He picked up one of the envelopes and held it up to the light : the watermark showed the heraldic hybrid with which he was becoming familiar , with the wings of an eagle and the body of a lion . |
| 15 | He picked up one of the ashtrays and sat down in an armchair , crossing his legs and balancing it on his knee . |
| 16 | He picked up one of the newspapers and began reading . |