Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ascent had now become so steep , it seemed as though he were now swimming up through the darkness , which was thickening and growing viscous . |
| 2 | No , he were never puffed up about his writing , was n't Walter . ’ |
| 3 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 4 | However , it is a less expressive image , as it is a less expressive moment , for while he is so wrapped up in the action of taking the shot she can not reveal much more than that furtive concentration that takes over any face in the act of intensive looking . |
| 5 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 6 | One thing , yesterday , we were talking about my wonderful stick man , here he is basically made up of his personality , a number of attitudes and outward behaviour . |
| 7 | Unless there still out , he 's probably fare up by now . |
| 8 | He 's probably coming up to about forty six now but he , he was quite young when he started off with Traidcraft and everything . |
| 9 | He 's probably shacked up with some bint somewhere . |
| 10 | He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Which must mean that , regardless of the fact that he 's so wound up over you he ca n't think straight , you 're only playing around with him for the pure hell of it . ’ |
| 12 | And she adds , ‘ Sometimes I even get the feeling that he 's deliberately working up to a smack ; almost testing me out , pushing me to the limit ! ’ |
| 13 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 14 | He , he 's really cut up about poor old Alex . |
| 15 | Oh , he 's too wrapped up in his work to bother about his wife . |
| 16 | But he 's still fed up with people who knock the station . |
| 17 | He 's never stood up to me before . |
| 18 | Grandfather 's principal interest was to hear the one who played the piano but when he got there he was rather taken up with the violinist . |
| 19 | When she came back , clasping the diary , her excitement was so enormous — so gloriously young , that he was completely caught up in it . |
| 20 | He was probably fed up with having to sleep four to a bed . |
| 21 | He was probably mixed up in disposing of the pictures stolen in that big robbery from the Duke of Suffolk 's place , and there 've been other things . |
| 22 | Michael , who lives in Moffatt Close , Darlington , is still critically ill in Middlesbrough Hospital after he was viciously beaten up in Darlington 's High Row 12 days ago . |
| 23 | ( He was later picked up by the Italians and made a prisoner . ) |
| 24 | ‘ He was 'ere making up to an honest travellin' lass . ’ |
| 25 | He was badly beaten up by late substitute Carl Thompson , who scaled 13st 3lb — around 17lb more than Benn will weigh tonight — and went on to become British cruiserweight champion . |
| 26 | He was well wrapped up against the weather . |
| 27 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 28 | It would make things far worse for him when he was eventually brought up for trial . |
| 29 | He was soon caught up in the wartime expansion of government activity , being concerned mainly with the regulation of foreign trade . |
| 30 | He was here checking up on the search for Terry Place . |