Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] up the " in BNC.

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1 For his part Ivashko promised following his election to give up the Ukrainian CP leadership , and at a party congress on June 22-23 he was replaced as first secretary by his former deputy , Stanislav Gurenko .
2 When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane .
3 He made a similar reply to another member who insisted that radio should give better publicity to what MPs said in the House : it was not , he said , the job of his Ministry to build up the reputation of individual MPs .
4 He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether .
5 Wells lost his tolerance of contradiction in his anxiety to tidy up the world .
6 Eight years after setting a world mile record which still remains unchallenged today , the 32-year-old has abandoned his glittering international miling career to make his eagerly-awaited move up the distance ladder .
7 To the general surprise , the March — it was worked on by Harvey Postlethwaite , now at Ferrari and one of a handful of the really bright ones — proved an effective foil for Hunt 's driving style : Hunt qualified ninth and was running sixth when his engine gave up the ghost .
8 But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past .
9 Jessica , after a time , had said she loved him too , and grew quite fascinated by his refusal to bring up the subject of fidelity .
10 In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] .
11 The commander , above , and his crew raced up the Rock of Gibraltar to help Janet 's Team-Up appeal .
12 His wife picked up the phone believing it was an anniversary treat from her husband .
13 His wife rang up the following day .
14 Rodgers and his wife built up the collection without the aid of a professional adviser , purchasing from dealers and at auction .
15 Amidst calls to bring back the birch and to inaugurate ‘ Saturday night floggings ’ for soccer hooligans , Mr William Whitelaw reaffirmed his pledge to toughen up the law by introducing a new regime of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres modelled on the Army ‘ glass house ’ system of physical drill and unrelenting discipline .
16 ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers .
17 His child-heart picking up the tribal beam ,
18 His daughter summed up the real emotions of herself and her mother .
19 Brian Fletcher on Red Rum thought he was , and urged his mount to keep up the pursuit .
20 On his way to mop up the bathroom he stood before a mirror admiring his Egyptian slimness of hip .
21 His final work , on children , he advertised as fulfilling his promise to follow up the Tractatus , but in ‘ more hast ’ , because ‘ I see my glasse runs apace ’ : De morbis puerorum , or , a treatise of the diseases of children … very useful for all such as are housekeepers ( 1653 ) .
22 Once he was over the edge of extreme fatigue his brain drank up the language by the pint .
23 Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing .
24 In writing with this frankly propagandist aim — to focus on Jesus Christ — the disciple was bring faithful to the remarkable way in which his Master summed up the purpose of all Scripture .
25 It was obviously far more interesting to spend his time chatting up the local talent .
26 As usual , Maria Grazia answered and then yelled to his mother to pick up the extension phone by her chair , in the deep underwater gloom of the living room .
27 His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there .
28 The rest of his party brought up the rear , baiting and goading Ranulf , who gave as good as he got with a stream of obscene English oaths .
29 Sturt was just off to Adelaide with his family to take up the post of Surveyor-General of South Australia , and it was a matter of great good fortune that the two met at all .
30 But Stewart dived a long way to his left to scoop up the ball one handed just inches from the turf .
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