Example sentences of "he [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 4 | He picked up the dry droppings and crumbled them in his hand . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin . |