Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 2 | He promised to step up competition against the company 's Japanese rivals . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Well , I saw his van really , once when he came to pick up Billy when they were going off somewhere for the weekend . |
| 5 | In.1922 he threatened to give up literature . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His doctor told him he had to give up cigarettes and alcohol . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |