Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 2 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 3 | He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge . |
| 4 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 5 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 6 | He 'll follow up the contact , phone Steven , drop by and see him . |
| 7 | He might pick up a truth or two perhaps from servants or villagers of the Old Baron 's generation . ’ |
| 8 | He could build up a knowledge of who he was , piece by piece . |
| 9 | He could overrule , as it were , by sending " public " preachers , for example to preach a crusade and , most important , he could build up the power of the monasteries by granting or confirming exemption from the diocesan . |
| 10 | Call J. J. Gerrard direct and see if he could set up a spot on Briant for tonight 's edition ? |
| 11 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 12 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 13 | Though he could pick up a bit on the stable management , if he 'd a mind . |
| 14 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 15 | If only he could pick up the rock and hurl it , defiantly , to reciprocate the violence with such a true aim , that it would smash whatever the chosen target . |
| 16 | He could pick up the fear . |
| 17 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 18 | Jeffrey Archer 's ‘ private office ’ had brought an Amstrad to Brighton ; at the push of a button , he could summon up a blacklist of his very own . |
| 19 | A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor . |
| 20 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |
| 21 | he used to go to the house and he 'd measure up the body and I |
| 22 | ‘ He 'd go up the coffee stalls and peddle his arse for money . ’ |
| 23 | And he 'd look up a book . |
| 24 | ‘ One of the things he did was this : On the quiet he 'd heat up the ends of two thin iron rods . |
| 25 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 26 | One day he would open up a book — some new sword-and-sorcery trilogy , probably — and something he would read there would trigger what he knew was locked away in his own brain somewhere . |
| 27 | But apart from that he , he was a , he was er humorous too by nature and er he was , he was quite free in as much as if you made an approach to him , and he understood that you were n't there just for fun , he would set up a meeting and discuss it with you , er and go into details and at the same time , give you an answer at the earliest possible moment . |
| 28 | Shortly after this , he decided to ditch the one-liner style of stand-up and get rid of his immortal catch-phrase ( ‘ Put that chicken away , missus ! ’ ) in favour of a more confessional comedy routine ; he would gather up the rough , rotting scraps of his experience and weave them into balmy theatrical monologues . |
| 29 | Later he would gather up the apples ( and shot ) and put them in his cider press — the stones of which were braced with lead straps . |
| 30 | On March 2 Pedro Mendes Jurado became the new Attorney General ; he stated that he would step up the battle against terrorism and drug trafficking . |