Example sentences of "he be [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Likes to spout a lot and is never happier than when he is chewing up all the small fry in the world . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's digging up all the groundsel . |
| 3 | I do n't think Selina exercises the Fiasco much when I 'm in the States , and of course Alec Llewellyn has no use for it , now that he 's locked up twenty-four hours a day |
| 4 | ‘ However , he 's tied up this morning , so I 'm taking a look around . ’ |
| 5 | He 's rigged up some sort of snowplough behind a horse . ’ |
| 6 | He 's waiting up this end . |
| 7 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 8 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |
| 9 | He was tied up that evening , apologies , and the rest of his team were out of town . |
| 10 | Johnny Boy Gomes was the July pin-up on my surfing calendar back in Cambridge , and now he was picking up more barrels than a beer-truck . |
| 11 | If he was leading up some further project which required her co-operation , the answer would be no . |
| 12 | He was covering up all the time ! |
| 13 | All the time he was running up huge bills and wiping out systems all over the world . ’ |
| 14 | He was torn up real bad from all my gunfire . |
| 15 | he was pulling up that water you know the |
| 16 | It certainly seemed as though he was tying up all the loose ends of his life . |
| 17 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 18 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 19 | She 'd known he was growing up peculiar — he did badly at school , and had no friends — but she 'd begun to see , from living in the same house as him again , how different he was from other kids . |
| 20 | Again in 1340 , Henry Vitele , received absolution for violation of the liberty of the Church of Rochester , by distraint of the Bishop 's tenants in Halling , he was to offer up one quartern of wax at the same altar . |
| 21 | Gregory 's father died when he was still a boy , and he was brought up first by his great-uncle , Nicetius , then a priest in Chalon-sur- Saône , but later bishop of Lyons , and afterwards by Avitus , archdeacon of Clermont , where his uncle Gallus was bishop . |