Example sentences of "he [is] [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he is soon swaddled up again , and mentally he stays swaddled up until he dies . ’ |
| 2 | He is also taking up his case with the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 3 | With a lift , the carer takes control of the patient 's full weight , so that he makes no effort in the manoeuvre , even when his feet are on the floor and he is effectively standing up . |
| 4 | His ingenious situation concerns very small homunculi from space , of the order of magnitude of body cells , who enter a human being in large numbers and colonize him to such an extent that he is eventually made up of small conscious entities . |
| 5 | Well we have , you maybe surprised to learn the 5th costliest defence in the country , valued at stlg9.3m ( excepting the aberration of Ipswich who have Marshall in the defense valued at stlg3m , when he is actually playing up front ) . |
| 6 | However , it is a less expressive image , as it is a less expressive moment , for while he is so wrapped up in the action of taking the shot she can not reveal much more than that furtive concentration that takes over any face in the act of intensive looking . |
| 7 | He is there to build up Lennie 's character and to build up their dream . |
| 8 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 9 | One thing , yesterday , we were talking about my wonderful stick man , here he is basically made up of his personality , a number of attitudes and outward behaviour . |
| 10 | He 's well stirred up . |
| 11 | He said he 's just revving up the car engine . |
| 12 | Unless there still out , he 's probably fare up by now . |
| 13 | He 's probably jumping up and down with fury . |
| 14 | He 's probably coming up to about forty six now but he , he was quite young when he started off with Traidcraft and everything . |
| 15 | He 's probably shacked up with some bint somewhere . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , one of Mr Stein 's first duties as general manager is to recruit the rest of the staff , and he 's already set up some interviews locally . |
| 17 | He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins . |
| 18 | I mean ah I know I know but then he 's pretty tied up and I know very well but even trying to get lunch with is difficult but there may be there may be I mean I know quite well but would want . |
| 19 | And eventually you you either do and he drives off and nearly runs into rams into a lamppost or something like that on his way when he 's finally given up , or else sometimes as I say they get together and er everything 's hunkydory . |
| 20 | He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’ |
| 21 | As a result , overtones of totality came to be attached to the word — for example , he 's altogether washed up — and the term still denotes absolute nakedness . |
| 22 | He does n't understand at all , children say things to him at school he 's very mixed up i 'm going to have to seek a lot of help for all the children.He asked me : ’ Am I going to get the bike back for Mark and Thomas to ride on the child 's seat ? ’ |
| 23 | and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further . |
| 24 | But his work has been destroyed so many times in the rads that he 's now giving up . |
| 25 | ‘ Which must mean that , regardless of the fact that he 's so wound up over you he ca n't think straight , you 're only playing around with him for the pure hell of it . ’ |
| 26 | Well he 's so hyped up now . |
| 27 | He 's so hyped up it 's unbelievable . |
| 28 | And she adds , ‘ Sometimes I even get the feeling that he 's deliberately working up to a smack ; almost testing me out , pushing me to the limit ! ’ |
| 29 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 30 | He , he 's really cut up about poor old Alex . |