Example sentences of "he [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered him propped up by the nurses , waving his little hands about . |
| 2 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 3 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 4 | They left him looking up at the sky again . |
| 5 | Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively . |
| 6 | He had behaved disgracefully on Thursday and I was going to make him face up to the fact on Friday . |
| 7 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 8 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 9 | Yeah , it 's just , I do n't want him to start up in the summer again |
| 10 | I saw him go up to the house- ’ |
| 11 | You say you saw him go up to the house and take something ? |
| 12 | For a moment there was silence , then the boy spoke again , the whole of him gathered up into the movement of his lips . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll bet she 'd like him to end up at the foot of the cliff , ’ said a voice . |
| 14 | BRISTOL City striker Leroy Rosenior accused referee Martin Bodenham of being ‘ a disgrace ’ because the official hassled him to get up after the former West Ham ace was knocked senseless . |
| 15 | You can not imagine him putting up with the committee which apparently advised Elizabeth II in 1960 to buy an all too committee-like selection of modern artists — Nolan , Lowry , Hitchens , Davie — chosen , one suspects , so that none of the great men felt left out . |
| 16 | They certainly should not have been letting him curl up on the floor next to Badger . |
| 17 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 18 | During a sojourn in Northumbria one of these ‘ academic high-flyers ’ remained implacably ‘ not one of us ’ , and I heard him summed up in the following terms : |
| 19 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 20 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 21 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 22 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 23 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 24 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 25 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 26 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 27 | JEREMY McWilliams faces the big one tomorrow when , as the first Ulster rider in the newly constituted 500cc World motor cycling championship , he lines up against the cream of the international circus at Eastern Creek , Sydney , for the Australian Grand Prix , the first round in the series . |
| 28 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 29 | He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look . |
| 30 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |