Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 2 | He helped push up ratings and doubled its comedy output . |
| 3 | He promised to step up competition against the company 's Japanese rivals . |
| 4 | Until now , he 'd given up hope that such a burgeoning time would ever come again . |
| 5 | He 'd given up woodwork , having driven a splinter through his thumbnail . |
| 6 | Of course , he 'd given up medicine to pursue comedy , but he was absolutely at his best when caring for others . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of the boys would n't believe John , he 'd made up stories before , but all the girls believed me . |
| 8 | He 'd soaked up atmosphere , as he had intended — my God he had . |
| 9 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 10 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 11 | He forgot that when he came to hang up Vechey 's corpse the river would have risen , covering any suitable platform for a suicide to stand on . ’ |
| 12 | Well , I saw his van really , once when he came to pick up Billy when they were going off somewhere for the weekend . |
| 13 | In.1922 he threatened to give up literature . |
| 14 | On the death of his father in 1853 he decided to take up medicine , and became a student at the London Hospital ( MRCS and LSA , 1856 ) , where he won many prizes . |
| 15 | Huy had been more help to the Medjay than he realised ; but it was on his own account that he decided to take up Taheb 's invitation and visit her . |
| 16 | And , of course , if he did stir up trouble he could always be put inside again . |
| 17 | He was staying there since giving up his flat at around the same time he had given up Crystal Daly . |
| 18 | Within a month he had given up frustration and made his Christmas presents instead . |
| 19 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 20 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 21 | Already robbed of Robert Coles and Richard Hussey by Brabazon demands , and others through injury , he had to call up Warley 's Nathan Smith at short notice when David Salisbury dropped out . |
| 22 | His doctor told him he had to give up cigarettes and alcohol . |
| 23 | The first extensive studies of Romano-British pottery were by Thomas May , who died on 28 October , 1931 at Stratford-upon-Avon , where he had taken up residence to be able to work on the nearby site at Tiddington , ( Fieldhouse , May and Wellstood , 1931 ) . |
| 24 | He had picked up Jamie 's helmet and put it on , the sides hanging well below his ears , his eyes hardly visible . |
| 25 | She had only been mad at Dan , because he had brought up Patrick 's name when she wanted him to be a secret . |
| 26 | Deadwood prospered and Costner was befriended by locals until they discovered he had drawn up plans for an 800-room hotel and conference centre nearby . |
| 27 | He had to shore up support among traditional Democrats , and he did ; hence the expectation that he would be the harbinger of a hundred new social policies on everything from vaccination to AIDS . |
| 28 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 29 | At one stage , he considered closing up shop for good . |