Example sentences of "he [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 2 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 3 | He built up a complete instrument and travelled round the Dales on a horse and cart playing it . |
| 4 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 5 | Meanwile , Roland had become self-employed in 1978 , and while sub-contracting during the day , he built up a small nucleus of clients in the evenings with Alison 's help . |
| 6 | Born in Hereford in 1855 , he became known throughout his native county as he built up a detailed knowledge of the countryside of Herefordshire and the Welsh border . |
| 7 | He built up a considerable reputation in chart-making , his advice being sought in 1680 and again in 1685 by Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] , secretary to the Admiralty . |
| 8 | And he built up a whole business just by picking famous names and saying , look I think your design is really outdated and it 's not doing your image any good . |
| 9 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 10 | He built up a large practice , relying especially on ‘ native ’ clients , and earned enough money to enable him to live in a very opulent way , even if he did not save any considerable fortune . |
| 11 | Through the favour of the king and of the Earl of Gloucester he built up a large estate in Kent and elsewhere : a royal grant of 1315 enumerates lands in forty-six places spread through eight counties . |
| 12 | He holds up a wooden multi-coloured fish . |
| 13 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 14 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 15 | On May 22nd ( the day following his terrible vow against Elfed ) he writes up a typical entry : ‘ Went to see As You Like It as performed by Form 4 . |
| 16 | How he snatched up a fallen branch , when the young man came down the path , and struck him with it , and he fell senseless , and the hood fell back from his head . |
| 17 | Slowly he lifted up a black hat . |
| 18 | The gunman looked around him wildly and the crowd parted as he darted up a narrow alleyway . |
| 19 | He accelerated up a dark and steep hill and finally they emerged on to the flat expanse of Blackheath . |
| 20 | Seldom , indeed , had he drawn up a preliminary bibliography before his attention was distracted by some new or revived interest in something entirely different . |
| 21 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 22 | The hesitant middle-aged gentleman who was brave enough to join a keep fit class later found himself confident enough to join the neighbouring management training and business start-up class , and grew in confidence and ability to the extent that he opened up a new business . |
| 23 | By arguing that the dimensions ( mass , length and time ) in which the various forms of energy can be expressed must be the same , he opened up a whole new research programme . |
| 24 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 25 | He pulled up a high stool and stood , his bottom propped on the stool , which he used like a shooting stick , his painting posture for these latter days . |
| 26 | After serving as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and Paris , he took up a new job in Berlin on the very day in 1930 when the Reichstag election heralded unprecedented barbarism in Europe . |
| 27 | In 1873 he took up a similar appointment with the Great Eastern Railway . |
| 28 | In 1978 he took up a Senior Registrar post in Diabetes at the General Hospital , Birmingham , and in 1981 his present post as Consultant Physician at Dudley Road Hospital , Birmingham . |
| 29 | They were n't able to give him this so he took up a reciprocal heading and dropped down to 2,000 ‘ ft ‘ and eventually found Humberside — all the time trying to figure out what had gone wrong . |
| 30 | Instead he took up a lucrative coaching post with the Botswana Youth team . |