Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do not know , ’ said Lili , ‘ how many women would gladly put away for ever their suspender-belt and stockings — put them away with the relief of the weary warrior hanging up his shield after battle . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ENGLAND , warned Disraeli while wind ing up his Budget speech of 1852 , does not love coalitions . |
| 4 | She watched the vibrator disappear up his rectum ; and heard his gasp as he tried to move his swollen prong inside her . |
| 5 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |
| 6 | Stuck for the precise word , the Colonel made a small gesture with his right hand which then efficiently used the momentum to pick up his claret . |
| 7 | The priest screwed up his eyes . |
| 8 | The little Priapus threw up his arms at me , jeering his pagan smile at my English face . |
| 9 | Such letters are available immediately the recipient opens up his PC . |
| 10 | Ellwood stayed still for a while , letting the priest set up his tackle and make a couple of casts , then he slithered down to the path . |
| 11 | These trips may be run after the employee has agreed to undertake the assignment and so form an integral part of the briefing process given before the employee takes up his posting . |
| 12 | Will the Secretary of State ensure that his Department backs up his promises to the business community and ensure that such disincentives to the business community coming forward are not allowed to continue ? |
| 13 | She undid his ankles , and left him with his wrists secured and the vibrator buzzing up his arse . |
| 14 | Slaven has trained on Redcar beach in a bid to speed up his recovery . |
| 15 | At this moment of consummation ( and the image is surely sexual as well ) , and in the time of relief following , the poet gives up his struggle and allows the ‘ sacred river ’ to draw him to its ‘ lifeless ’ conclusion : to struggle for control in the river is to be controlled by it . |
| 16 | The man from the Royal Mail put up his hands and said that it , the Royal Mail , had probably made an error . |
| 17 | Despite being normally mesmerised by the subject of the early Renaissance artists , on this occasion I was grateful to see the professor stacking up his papers a few minutes before the lecture was scheduled to end . |
| 18 | With that the priest picked up his hat and left the room . |
| 19 | One soldier held up his head , and clawed at his face . |
| 20 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 21 | With an eye on the election in 1995 , this latest action bears all the hallmarks of a bid to shore up his position with support from the land-hungry peasants in the countryside . |
| 22 | Lothar , in a last bid to shore up his power in western Francia , made a foray to the Seine . |
| 23 | It reminded her too much of her father 's years of toil to bring up his family . |
| 24 | Alf Ackroyd behind the bar pricked up his ears , as if some rival establishment to his own were under discussion . |
| 25 | The drying lather got up his nose , and he sneezed . |
| 26 | The cold crept up his body as he clutched fruitlessly at the insubstantial wood . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | SOCCER bad boy Ian Jolosa , who was ordered by a judge to clean up his act by watching Gary Lineker videos , has been banned from the game for three years . |
| 29 | … if the expert added up his figures wrongly ; or took something into account which he ought not to have taken into account , or conversely : or interpreted the agreement wrongly : or proceeded on some erroneous principle . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got four of them , white ones , ’ said the boy holding up his handkerchief and showing Philip the holes . |