Example sentences of "but he [vb past] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he continued to bundle up her things , nothing in his face betraying his masculine opinion of the rest of her serviceable undies . |
| 2 | I used to have one but he got fed up of me using it so he cut plug off |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to tell him that , but he kept hanging up . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But he seemed to end up getting into patent battles over them . ’ |
| 5 | He had n't got a job yet but he had gone up to London every day this week and come home in a jolly mood . |
| 6 | But he had ridden up on a valiant steed with all the trappings of chivalrous knighthood . |
| 7 | But he had drunk up her feeling with her blood . |
| 8 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 9 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 10 | But he failed to follow up quickly enough after delivering a thumping right of his own in round four . |
| 11 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 12 | But he 'd picked up hints that , at some point along the way , it 's be left on Vadinamia . ’ |
| 13 | He always rejected the hellraiser label but he began living up to his image when , in 1953 , he embarked on a drunken affair with Vivien Leigh while filming Elephant Walk in Ceylon . |
| 14 | But he did go up to my mother and say , like , you know . |
| 15 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 16 | But he did look up ; those eyes that were the colour of a summer sea had moved slowly over her before returning to her face . |
| 17 | But he did ring up . |
| 18 | It was only six o'clock , but he decided to get up . |