Example sentences of "he [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 2 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 3 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 4 | And we 'd go across and I would help him to couple up the various coaches and that . |
| 5 | Carrie watched him go up the steep main street . |
| 6 | Mungo watched him pile up the treble twenties , thinking of the small boy adopted by the woodcutter . |
| 7 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 8 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 9 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 10 | Naturally he he wanted to keep his place open and when he got up the next morning somebody had painted the side of the van completely over . |
| 11 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |
| 12 | He lined up the dead centre of the target and scored with a long , spiralling burst . |
| 13 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 14 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 15 | He moved up the tricky little wall ( the technical crux ) to the roof , and draped a thick sling over the huge pointed spike known as the Cheeseblock . |
| 16 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 17 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 18 | He snatched up the green telephone on his desk and punched out an internal number . |
| 19 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 20 | He strolled up the long arcade , pausing frequently to peer in shop windows at the expensive goodies . |
| 21 | when he lifted up the slimy surprise |
| 22 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 23 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 24 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 25 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 26 | Moran looked stern and self-conscious as he drove up the short avenue . |
| 27 | Despite being in extreme pain and feeling ill , he turned up the following day at rehearsals with long sleeves disguising his burns . |
| 28 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 29 | When I told Malc , he turned up the next night with a gift-wrapped teddy for the baby . |
| 30 | 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 . |