Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noticed that the phone was ringing , and as he sat down he picked up the receiver and almost casually identified himself . |
| 2 | So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it . |
| 3 | They were n't able to give him this so he took up a reciprocal heading and dropped down to 2,000 ‘ ft ‘ and eventually found Humberside — all the time trying to figure out what had gone wrong . |
| 4 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 5 | Erm so he set up the corner as a darkroom and started doing playing about with his with his own black and white printing . |
| 6 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 7 | So he picked up the receiver and waited . |
| 8 | There 's aids and he 's chasing the bum and the bum 's running and the aids is going come on you little bastard and he 's going leave me alone and so he runs up a tree and there 's a bird there and he 's got all bones on him , he 's a s witch doctor and the bird goes , and the bird goes , what 's a matter ? |
| 9 | so he dug up the lawn and put a little garage in |
| 10 | When she went downstairs he picked up the photo which stood on the dressing-table , one of his parents at someone else 's wedding . |
| 11 | Finally he picked up a handful of stones and every time he looked round and found her following , he threw one . |
| 12 | Finally he gave up the attempt , and took the most direct way back to his house . |
| 13 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't he the grand feller , chanting away , as if it was only yesterday he called up a spell or two ? ’ ) |
| 15 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 16 | Five years later he took up the project again under the new title of Church Dogmatics . |
| 17 | In February 1922 , Hitler told his SA that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was the only thing that mattered , and a few months later he summed up the entire Party Programme in the one point : that no Jew could be a ‘ people 's comrade ’ . |
| 18 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 19 | When he was satisfied they were doing it correctly he picked up the head of the dead buffalo and carried it to the river . |
| 20 | Now he puts up an egg box . |
| 21 | Well he climbed up the bloody first stair . |
| 22 | Here he built up a trade in seeds , corn , manure , and fertilizer , and started a malt kiln in Driffield and a brewery and kilns in Malton . |
| 23 | ‘ Wo n't he kick up a fuss when he discovers they 've gone ? ’ |
| 24 | Did n't he mess up the header/flick on that allowed Sheron to score the first goal ? |
| 25 | Slowly he lifted up a black hat . |
| 26 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 27 | Then he scooped up the bat , swept it back into the drawer , and composed himself at his chair . |
| 28 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 29 | I phoned Debby to get Steven 's phone number to get him to leave out the microphone and the amplifier and then he brought up the microphone and did n't bring up the amplifier . |
| 30 | Then he ran up the rope of the alarm bell . |