Example sentences of "he [vb past] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 2 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 3 | Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm . |
| 4 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 5 | In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements . |
| 6 | He collected up the coins and put them back into his trouser pocket . |
| 7 | He packed up the mails and er tackled the to have a go . |
| 8 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 9 | He smashed up the nests of the Birds of Paradise , and flew off laughing . |
| 10 | Following Fiver , he scrambled up the lumps and shelves of peat to the overhang of gravelly earth and thin grass that topped them . |
| 11 | Stooping , he grabbed up the letters and stuffed them down behind the chair cushion just as the door opened and his sister walked in . |
| 12 | He took up the links again between Moses and the killing of the primal father at the end of his life . |
| 13 | As soon as he 'd hung up the phone , he gathered up the toys and slung them , Hamleys bag and all , under the bed . |
| 14 | Quickly , glancing back to the tent , he gathered up the limbs and torso , wrapped them in the discarded skins , tied them crudely and gathered them into his arms . |
| 15 | On 2nd & 3rd June he put up the drawings . |
| 16 | He flicked up the tails of his brocade coat and sat beside her , stretching out his long legs . |
| 17 | He totted up the figures night after night , and ‘ he would take that piece of paper out of his pocket and look at it again and again ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ He gave up the letters , Natasha . |
| 19 | ‘ My son lives in England and he saved up the vouchers to buy the ticket and posted it to me . |
| 20 | The fact is , however , that it has helped both of them to survive difficult times : when he had a small operation , she was there ; when she was ill , he carried up the trays . |
| 21 | He summed up the benefits of open systems to Harris as including a reduction in operating costs of between 60% and 75% , functional staff reductions of between 20-50% , software maintenance savings of between 50% and 60% and cost avoidance in the region of $250m to $300m , this being based on the cost per MIPS of a mainframe , $44,300 , compared with a workstation server of $761 per MIPS . |
| 22 | He wrote up the names of all trainees on the white board , and at the end of the day , he wrote up the sales scores of each one . |
| 23 | Reporters and police rushed for cover , watching Janotte as he ran up the banks of a nearby gully . |
| 24 | He hoovered up the dregs of his coffee and scurried out of the cafe . |
| 25 | He held up the papers . |
| 26 | He should know : he set up the police unit which , fictionalised , rushes around the small screen under the name ’ Miami Vice ’ . |
| 27 | He ended up the Operations Officer . |
| 28 | He picked up the tongs to check the meat . |
| 29 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
| 30 | He picked up the women in the street . |