Example sentences of "and he [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Make yourself some coffee , ’ the Rasta says , and he picks up the phone . |
| 2 | ‘ Hombre , hombre , hombre , ’ they chorused , urging her to take her man , and ‘ Que lenta , ’ they screamed when she failed to catch up with her number four , and he went up the field and scored to loud cheers . |
| 3 | yeah , and he went up the plot and he come back and he said cor you can have plenty old erm cold sheds that he could have got , I said what do you really think , I played a free hand , you mean mum and dad 's hand |
| 4 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 5 | Then the Doctor began to sing ; he was a great man at a party and he warmed up the crowd no end . |
| 6 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 7 | In 1747 , Stukeley could stand Stamford no longer and he took up the living of St. George 's in Bloomsbury , London , thus ending his associations with the town . |
| 8 | And he moves up the scale from the creation of individual regional statutes , to address the law enforcement problems caused by peculiar geography , to the place of the law in the body politic . |
| 9 | ‘ My son lives in England and he saved up the vouchers to buy the ticket and posted it to me . |
| 10 | Luce slid off his knee , and he picked up the phone and dialled . |
| 11 | Her finger jabbed at the picture of the man , not quite touching it , and he picked up the difference in the gestures immediately . |
| 12 | Once he is distracted , I push on hard and he gives up the game . |
| 13 | And he bought up the place Samantha . |
| 14 | ‘ His timing was impeccable , and he ended up the hero but you set your own standards and once they are high you have got to keep up with them . |