Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener . |
| 2 | But then he gave up concert performances to retire to his home in Texas . |
| 3 | Tom only missed the Postage Stamp green once during the tournament , and then he chipped up stone dead . |
| 4 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |
| 5 | Instead he heated up Anna 's food in a microwave as 30-year-old Mrs Love shouted instructions . |
| 6 | They every time , when he rung up Radio Bristol when I was about having coffee the other morning . |
| 7 | Knighton , Derbyshire-born and a professional for a year with Coventry City , was a teacher until 1984 when he took up property dealing . |
| 8 | Gone were the days when he smashed up hotels and pubs , dropped his trousers on an aeroplane and climbed up a pub chimney while the fire was still alight . |
| 9 | He remained prominent in the Photographic Society , and contributed to its annual exhibitions until 1862 , when he gave up photography completely , and sold all his negatives and equipment . |
| 10 | Hitler cemented the German-Hungarian alliance by allowing Hungary to annex Ruthenia and a strip of Southern Slovakia when he carved up Czechoslovakia in 1939 . |
| 11 | Three or four weeks ago , everyone watched the first wobbles of his journey with a critical eye , so critical , in fact , that they did not notice when he picked up speed later . |