Example sentences of "[to-vb] up his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winston Churchill was to sum up his appraisal in a contemptuous phrase : ‘ He came , he saw , he capitulated . ’ |
| 2 | Prom there he was to work up his cover as a rubber man and make the contacts that would get him into Germany . |
| 3 | He never got to clean up his act at the Betty Ford Clinic then bore us all stupid with tales of his past self-abuse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | FOOTBALL ‘ bad boy ’ Ian Jolosa is in trouble again … just days after a judge ordered him to clean up his act by watching Gary Lineker videos . |
| 6 | TOUGH Leicester defender Steve Walsh is planning to clean up his act after serving a three-match ban already this season . |
| 7 | Then she tumed to go to Simon 's house but half-way along the street she remembered that he had gone , with his mother , to pick up his Dad from the airport . |
| 8 | He guessed that the mikes were near enough to pick up his discussion with Stevie and relay it to several million viewers . |
| 9 | How nice it was when we could leave the back door undone for the baker to put the bread on the table , the butcher to walk in and even put the meat in the pantry safe and the insurance man to pick up his money from the table . |
| 10 | The original line-up has also been reunited , drummer Mark Brzezicki rejoining after leaving in 1989 to pick up his career as a session drummer . |
| 11 | There were two Jamaican boys in there and they made a point of crowding the counter , holding their elbows akimbo , so that Shiva was unable to pick up his paper from the pile in front of them . |
| 12 | He has no plans to open up his hallway for public viewing . |
| 13 | Straining , successfully , to eradicate any trace of intelligence , Glaser pulls out every stop to rack up his movie to cloying extremes . |
| 14 | Mike trying to cover up his unease about staying in so she could go out by patronising sarcasm . |
| 15 | He could have seen Piers was only trying to cover up his feeling of insecurity . |
| 16 | He needs an extra £100 000 to scale up his method to 10 litres — big enough for clinical trials . |
| 17 | Maxted sighed , and began to gather up his work from the floor , trying to put it back in some kind of sequence . |
| 18 | .. The Bundesbank puts up its rate by 1 per cent and the Chancellor is forced to put up his rate by 1 per cent straight ahead of the Tory Party conference . |
| 19 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 20 | For good measure , he compared a litigant to a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones . |
| 21 | He will take up the £51,000 a year job as soon as possible and is expected to have to give up his chairmanship of the all-party defence select committee . |
| 22 | However , Angus did not intend to give up his pursuit of her ; she fascinated him as no other woman had . |
| 23 | A standing ovation greeted the end of their encore on the opening night and such praise was lavished on the troupe during the run that Tiller resolved to give up his work in the cotton trade and throw in his lot with the theatrical profession . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) This section also applies if , at any time after 9th June 1988 , a landlord ( in this section referred to as " the landlord in default " ) or any person acting on behalf of the landlord in default — ( a ) attempts unlawfully to deprive the residential occupier of any premises of his occupation of the whole or part of the premises , or ( b ) knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the conduct is likely to cause the residential occupier of any premises — ( i ) to give up his occupation of the premises or any part thereof , or ( ii ) to refrain from exercising any right or pursuing any remedy in respect of the premises or any part thereof , does acts likely to interfere with the peace or comfort of the residential occupier or members of his household , or persistently withdraws or withholds services reasonably required for the occupation of the premises as a residence , and , as a result , the residential occupier gives up his occupation of the premises as a residence . |
| 25 | An FPÖ federal deputy , Helmut Weiss , was in October 1989 forbidden by the FPÖ chair , Haider , to take up his seat in the Nationalrat and was also obliged to give up his seat in the Bundesrat , after he had made controversial statements about the Nazi era . |
| 26 | Former Spurs and England skipper Gary , 31 , had been prepared to give up his move to Japan . |
| 27 | Because however much we might be reassured by Parliament that Charles 's constitutional position will be unaffected by his separation , most of us believe that the Prince will finally have to give up his right to the throne — just as his Great Uncle did in the Abdication of 1936 . |
| 28 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 29 | But then how could you expect someone like David Mellor to give up his sort of games for those they 're playing in Spain ? — . |
| 30 | Maidstone 's offer of a full-time job was n't good enough to persuade Still to give up his post as a textile manager . |