Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 2 | Two of his brothers ended up in the House of Lords . |
| 3 | He scanned her tense expression , his eyes crinkled up against the sun . |
| 4 | After turning the sausages and prodding the briquettes again he rested his arms on the railing and looked out over Central Park , his eyes screwed up against the sun even though he was wearing a pair of prescription sunglasses . |
| 5 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 6 | His left arm went round behind her neck , his right snaked up inside the clinging fabric of her dress . |
| 7 | Fernando Serra , as seriously good-looking as ever , watched from the deck as his crew tied up at the jetty . |
| 8 | His head came up from the bin , and his eyes looked like little flames of candle . |
| 9 | His lordship looked up from the book and passed a weary hand across his forehead . |
| 10 | His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave . |
| 11 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 12 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 13 | And when the Captain-General and his men turned up in the afternoon — all in polished armour , and bearing a gaudy new flag adorned with the arms of Castile and Leon and a Madonna and Child — they were dismayed ? embarrassed ? horrified ? amused ? ( history does not record ) to find no sea in sight ; just hundreds of yards of black and rank-smelling mud . |
| 14 | He committed Mike Hooper to his dive , but his shot spun up off the keeper 's legs , giving Torbin Piechnik time to head away from under his crossbar . |
| 15 | His Dad pulled up by the fence and wound his window down . |
| 16 | Victorine was confused by the tale Baptiste had told her just now when he and his mother turned up at the back door with Léonie 's sandal and an armful of bread . |
| 17 | Tony is er Professor of Economics at Cambridge and is a world renowned luminary in economic circles and er he 's , he 's here for the next week as a special professor and er is giving a number of lectures er most of which are open to , to all , to all students and he is a very famous economist , very clever chap you know if you can get to see him I , I 'd reco I 'd recommend it erm presuma there may be a sort of programme of his visit stuck up on the student notice boards erm , if there is n't er he 's giving a , a lecture tomorrow two o'clock in B seventy four and that 's , that 's if , he is going to be talking to the M A students er taking Economic Development and Policy Analysis and his topic there is comparing income inequality and poverty in Europe erm so if you , you know , if you are free tomorrow at two it just might be interesting to go along to , feel free to go to B seventy four tomorrow at two o'clock . |
| 18 | His accusations backed up with the evidence found by Craig would be enough to convict Spencer and send him to prison for some time , once his whereabouts were discovered , for Spencer seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 19 | Norman was called upon , he was standing on the rock just behind Issaacs , swaying on his hips in that way he has , with his face turned up to the night . |
| 20 | She saw Adam kneeling erect and motionless , his face turned up to the chains ; his eyes were closed , and fire burned clear and transparent all round him . |
| 21 | As he wrote , the new shift operator tracked the Citation towards the parking-ramp , his face lit up by the screen in front of him . |