Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sergeant considered Jim Lancaster was going to slam the door and he prepared to thrust his right foot up against the jamb . |
| 2 | He walked carefully to his seat , picked his little cup up from the floor and went to the room 's single window . |
| 3 | When he flapped his stumpy wings and heaved his fat body up above the topmost branches , Cassowary was as pleased as pie . |
| 4 | Mathew Spedding , it seems , was still working his small mine up on the fells somewhere , and again , his small sett was to be excluded . |
| 5 | This is a convenient practice as it avoids the need , for example , for speculation as to how the injured person 's condition will develop from the time of the initial injury or for speculation as to what his financial loss up to the date of trial at least will be . |
| 6 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |