Example sentences of "[verb] up his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we leave him , he is blurredly registering clumps and layers of passing foliage , his lower lip moist and hanging out slightly , with an uncomfortable draught agitating up his trouser legs from the hole that was his very own creation . |
| 2 | Ray Hammond , who has run the railway for the last eleven years , will be opening up his workshop to show people how the miniature trains are made and maintained . |
| 3 | Ozymandias , whose famous admonishment has been haunting me from Day One , seems to lurk round every corner , laughing up his sleeve . |
| 4 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |
| 5 | A slight man , he held himself erect and drew up his portfolio across his chest . |
| 6 | As we were turning to follow his directions , he drew up his cuff and showed us the blue tattooed cross that all Copts have on the inside of their wrists . |
| 7 | This was the point at which he drew up his application for the Mandan Foundation grant . |
| 8 | He suddenly had a vision of Lee tearing up his note-book and wearing his helmet . |
| 9 | Winston Churchill was to sum up his appraisal in a contemptuous phrase : ‘ He came , he saw , he capitulated . ’ |
| 10 | There was silence in the stands as Stevie lined up his putt . |
| 11 | As he lined up his shot , he boasted to his mates , ‘ If I do n't sink this , I 'll marry my girlfriend . ’ |
| 12 | He had n't wanted an illegitimate child cluttering up his life , particularly when a rich widow had started to cast meaningful glances in his direction . |
| 13 | He remained poised in that position as he jerked up his head . |
| 14 | Harry jerked up his head distrustfully , eyes flaring wide . |
| 15 | She jerked up his arm , and spun round under it . |
| 16 | Almost pathologically resistant to remaining stationary , Normski has been keeping up his photography career , and earlier this year he staged an exhibition of his rap photos , appropriately at the Covent Garden clothes store RAP ( since closed ) . |
| 17 | For while his victory certainly overturned the basic tenets of any horse race — he won because he was so far behind at the crucial moment — still he gained that victory by adapting to the circumstances which had suddenly presented themselves , by his jockey 's quick and skilful manoeuvring by his jockey , by jumping accurately and by keeping up his gallop to the end . |
| 18 | ‘ He seems to be keeping up his piano playing , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Zen suddenly understood that Bartocci had some move in mind , something which he was keeping up his sleeve for the moment . |
| 20 | He straightens up his mac and gives me a real serious look . |
| 21 | He did an eight month fitter/armourer course ending up his training with top marks and a corporal 's stripes , and then did several months ' instructing before being sent to a ground crew on a Bomber Command airfield . |
| 22 | Smiling to herself , she began to write up his case , then , suddenly , she heard the bell ring at the door of the waiting-room . |
| 23 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
| 24 | One forced him to stand up his fiancée Mary Todd at their first planned wedding in 1841 . |
| 25 | Jazz skewered up his hair with a few of Mrs Nicholson 's hairpins and the three of them shuffled and clacked respectively for home , grateful for the now emptier streets . |
| 26 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 27 | Ashley weighed up his suggestion . |
| 28 | He took a last look round the kitchen , caught up his flask and pack , carefully dislodged his rod from the top of the deal press and doubled out of the House . |
| 29 | Consequently , when Sam did screw up his courage to ask Jonadab for his permission to approach Martha with a proposal , Jonadab agreed , confident that he knew what Martha 's reply would be . |
| 30 | Another top star of the seventies , David Soul , beat up his wife . |