Example sentences of "he [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 2 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 3 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 4 | Naturally he he wanted to keep his place open and when he got up the next morning somebody had painted the side of the van completely over . |
| 5 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |
| 6 | He lined up the dead centre of the target and scored with a long , spiralling burst . |
| 7 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 8 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 9 | He moved up the tricky little wall ( the technical crux ) to the roof , and draped a thick sling over the huge pointed spike known as the Cheeseblock . |
| 10 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 11 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 12 | He snatched up the green telephone on his desk and punched out an internal number . |
| 13 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 14 | He strolled up the long arcade , pausing frequently to peer in shop windows at the expensive goodies . |
| 15 | when he lifted up the slimy surprise |
| 16 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 17 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 18 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 19 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 20 | Moran looked stern and self-conscious as he drove up the short avenue . |
| 21 | Despite being in extreme pain and feeling ill , he turned up the following day at rehearsals with long sleeves disguising his burns . |
| 22 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 23 | When I told Malc , he turned up the next night with a gift-wrapped teddy for the baby . |
| 24 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 25 | It was a sash window , and he threw up the lower half . |
| 26 | He climbed up the outside staircase past the fountains surrounded by black-veiled women filling their pots with water and out on to the little parapeted promenade which crowned the second storey . |
| 27 | Well he climbed up the bloody first stair . |
| 28 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 29 | He scooped up the solid little parcel . |
| 30 | In fury he scooped up the gelatinous mess and hurled it at Fairbrother , who kicked him in the balls . |