Example sentences of "he [verb] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 2 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 3 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 4 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 5 | He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look . |
| 6 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 7 | The blue was a flyer , wings trimmed to prevent him from going too high in the action ; he got up in a sudden whirr of fury , looking for a brain blow , but gaffing the dun bird in the breast . |
| 8 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 9 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 10 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 11 | It was a great performance by the sergeant as he strolled up to The Mighty Tharg . |
| 12 | It was only in 1946 that he came up with a practical scheme for using the manyattas for higher purposes . |
| 13 | In 1990 he came up with a middling conclusion : brontosaurs had bones as strong as those of modern elephants in terms of comparative scale . |
| 14 | ‘ He used his resources to try and trace it and he came up with a French jeweller who 'd been offered it about twenty-five years ago . |
| 15 | Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution . |
| 16 | He came up with the electric clock , a form of fire alarm , a railway signal and a loudspeaker . |
| 17 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 18 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 19 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 20 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 21 | Donald was in full cry but he came up against a rejuvenated Kapil Dev . |
| 22 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 23 | He woke up to the nauseating smell of burning skin and a roaring sound . |
| 24 | Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly . |
| 25 | ‘ And once he woke up in the early morning , and saw a rat in the middle of the floor , looking at him . |
| 26 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 28 | " With all this equipment for moving things about the place , " he gestured up towards the moving line of clinking cutlery above their heads , looping under the assorted ducting and swivelled prisms of the kitchens ' ceiling . |
| 29 | ‘ Barns to the right , grooms ’ quarters to the left , Alejandro 's straight ahead , ’ said Luke as he drove up to a large ugly mulberry-red house with flowerbeds full of clashing red tulips , primulas and wallflowers , and a water tower completely submerged in variegated ivy . |
| 30 | A minute or two later he drove up in a battered English saloon car with a bumper and two door handles missing . |