Example sentences of "and he [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 2 | ‘ Make yourself some coffee , ’ the Rasta says , and he picks up the phone . |
| 3 | If he was right , and he sent up a silent prayer that he was , it could be he had stumbled on Angel One 's secret escape route . |
| 4 | ‘ Hombre , hombre , hombre , ’ they chorused , urging her to take her man , and ‘ Que lenta , ’ they screamed when she failed to catch up with her number four , and he went up the field and scored to loud cheers . |
| 5 | yeah , and he went up the plot and he come back and he said cor you can have plenty old erm cold sheds that he could have got , I said what do you really think , I played a free hand , you mean mum and dad 's hand |
| 6 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 7 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 8 | Then the Doctor began to sing ; he was a great man at a party and he warmed up the crowd no end . |
| 9 | In 1747 , Stukeley could stand Stamford no longer and he took up the living of St. George 's in Bloomsbury , London , thus ending his associations with the town . |
| 10 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 11 | And he moves up the scale from the creation of individual regional statutes , to address the law enforcement problems caused by peculiar geography , to the place of the law in the body politic . |
| 12 | It was a sash window , and he threw up the lower half . |
| 13 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 14 | ‘ My son lives in England and he saved up the vouchers to buy the ticket and posted it to me . |
| 15 | After lifting the European Formula Three crown in 1979 , he was offered a position alongside John Watson in the McLaren Formula One team for 1980 and he picked up a point on his debut in the Argentine Grand Prix . |
| 16 | I said , can I have the sugar and he picked up a knife from the table-top and pretended to carve his heart out , put it in the sugar bowl and presented it to me . |
| 17 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 18 | Ben Hanbury is flying as well and he picked up the big race there yesterday with White Crown . |
| 19 | Her finger jabbed at the picture of the man , not quite touching it , and he picked up the difference in the gestures immediately . |
| 20 | Luce slid off his knee , and he picked up the phone and dialled . |
| 21 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
| 22 | Again he mirrored her meanings back , and he held up the distorted black lumps that were her errors of syntax . |
| 23 | Once he is distracted , I push on hard and he gives up the game . |
| 24 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 25 | And he built up a whole business just by picking famous names and saying , look I think your design is really outdated and it 's not doing your image any good . |
| 26 | And he bought up the place Samantha . |
| 27 | But a client is a client and he perked up no end as we walked round to Marlowe Road , Lloyd between us and one of the Dennison boys about ten feet ahead acting as an outrider . |
| 28 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 29 | She said Mr Venables had turned Tottenham into a family club , adding : ‘ He always talks to us and he set up a creche at the club . ’ |
| 30 | And he set up the third , after 44 minutes , with a 20-yard effort that Strakosha could only shove out . |