Example sentences of "he [verb] up [art] [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 | Now , £100 000 from the Department of Industry has enabled him to set up a full-time commercial unit to analyse samples sent from Europe as well as Britain . |
| 3 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 4 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |
| 5 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary . |
| 8 | And we 'd go across and I would help him to couple up the various coaches and that . |
| 9 | Carrie watched him go up the steep main street . |
| 10 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 11 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 12 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |
| 13 | Mungo watched him pile up the treble twenties , thinking of the small boy adopted by the woodcutter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , in the Doubles final Ian McClure was heading for his second Irish title when he built up a 19-6 lead after 13 ends over James Talbot and Michael Nutt of Old Bleach . |
| 20 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 21 | He built up a complete instrument and travelled round the Dales on a horse and cart playing it . |
| 22 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 23 | Meanwile , Roland had become self-employed in 1978 , and while sub-contracting during the day , he built up a small nucleus of clients in the evenings with Alison 's help . |
| 24 | Born in Hereford in 1855 , he became known throughout his native county as he built up a detailed knowledge of the countryside of Herefordshire and the Welsh border . |
| 25 | He built up a considerable reputation in chart-making , his advice being sought in 1680 and again in 1685 by Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] , secretary to the Admiralty . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 28 | He built up a large practice , relying especially on ‘ native ’ clients , and earned enough money to enable him to live in a very opulent way , even if he did not save any considerable fortune . |
| 29 | Through the favour of the king and of the Earl of Gloucester he built up a large estate in Kent and elsewhere : a royal grant of 1315 enumerates lands in forty-six places spread through eight counties . |
| 30 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |