Example sentences of "he [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He woke up a few minutes later . |
| 2 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 3 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 4 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 5 | Turry has to be the best-armed hero of all time and when he picks up a few power-ups you 'd think he was invincible . |
| 6 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 7 | Instead he summoned up the perennial fears on the East Bank of Israeli destabilisation and denounced what he said were Zionist plots to make Jordan a substitute homeland for the Palestinians . |
| 8 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 9 | He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed . |
| 10 | He picked up the dry droppings and crumbled them in his hand . |
| 11 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 12 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 13 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 14 | ‘ My lipstick fell out of my bag , you see , and he trod on it — not on the carpet , thank heaven ! — so he picked up the mangled remains and asked if he could get me another . |
| 15 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |
| 16 | Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin . |
| 17 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 18 | ( a not unusual event ) he leaps up the six flights of stairs and arrives at the top as cool as a cucumber , followed by a very out-of-breath Orderly Officer . |