Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 2 | Chapman predicts : ‘ He 'll pick up a little prize before the end of the year . |
| 3 | He might pick up a truth or two perhaps from servants or villagers of the Old Baron 's generation . ’ |
| 4 | Like animals , they are great levellers — not remotely impressed by a string of titles — and he always found he could build up a good rapport with them . |
| 5 | He could build up a knowledge of who he was , piece by piece . |
| 6 | Call J. J. Gerrard direct and see if he could set up a spot on Briant for tonight 's edition ? |
| 7 | After a week or two 's good behaviour Nigel began to feel the need to prove to himself that he could pick up a genuine , bona-fide amateur about the same age as Caroline — someone young enough to be his daughter , in other words . |
| 8 | Though he could pick up a bit on the stable management , if he 'd a mind . |
| 9 | Jeffrey Archer 's ‘ private office ’ had brought an Amstrad to Brighton ; at the push of a button , he could summon up a blacklist of his very own . |
| 10 | There was a rather stagy photograph of the man who 'd written the article casting on a shingle beach ; in a companion photo , he 'd set up a three-rod line and was gazing mistily over the breakers . |
| 11 | I said his bed looked gorgeous and added , just in passing , that I hoped he 'd put up a wooden fence , as a metal one would n't do much for either garden . |
| 12 | ‘ He said he 'd pick up a spare part for me today , and he has n't , which is why we fell out earlier and why I 'm on my way now to pick it up myself . |
| 13 | And he 'd look up a book . |
| 14 | One day he would open up a book — some new sword-and-sorcery trilogy , probably — and something he would read there would trigger what he knew was locked away in his own brain somewhere . |
| 15 | But apart from that he , he was a , he was er humorous too by nature and er he was , he was quite free in as much as if you made an approach to him , and he understood that you were n't there just for fun , he would set up a meeting and discuss it with you , er and go into details and at the same time , give you an answer at the earliest possible moment . |
| 16 | Another faction was led by the conservative former NSF secretary Velicu Redina , who declared that he would set up a new social democratic NSF . |
| 17 | In case of opposition he would follow up a tap from his truncheon with a butt from his head , which was reported as ‘ generally conclusive ’ . |
| 18 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 19 | Most commonly , mura-muras are asked to send rain , for it is well known that if one is offended he will hold up a huge bark dish to the heavens and catch all the rain on its way to earth , out of spite . |
| 20 | However in many ways , Caulfield is the complete opposite of Lucy Snowe ; where she is quiet and retiring , and hides her feelings , Holden speaks his ; for example , he will strike up a conversation with anyone he meets — at one point in the book , Holden asks his taxi-driver if he knows where the ducks in Central Park go when their lake freezes ! |
| 21 | To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will set up a Select Committee to consider the investigations into the Lockerbie air disaster . |
| 22 | Mr Enright asked : ‘ If a principal duty of government is the prevention of crime , has n't this government failed spectacularly and should n't the Prime Minister immediately announce he will set up a Royal Commission to make urgent proposals to prevent this ? |
| 23 | Top Arthur has a couple of standard plans constructed from extensive historical research but , if the customer requires it , he will draw up a unique , individual design . |
| 24 | He 's an expert on the buildings history and if the building is bought up and say , converted to offices , would like one or 2 rooms put by so he can set up a museum of psychiatry . |
| 25 | If he does it 'll be interesting to see whether or not he might be the player to come in and take Gary 's place and see whether he can strike up a partnership with . |
| 26 | He 's always talking about finding a way to get rich so he can start up a place of his own one day in England . ’ |
| 27 | This gentleman thinks that he can bring up a child |
| 28 | He 's threatening to fly back to Paris this evening unless he can fix up a meeting with you . ’ |
| 29 | Now Mr. Lennis is turning them all into tramps , sending them all over the place wherever he can pick up a cargo . |