Example sentences of "he [verb] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 2 | If he turns up for court and he says , yes I had a terrible time at the police station and there were all sorts of breaches of but I am now here on a , I 'm gon na tell the truth , that 's no problem . |
| 3 | He reached the rendezvous safely where he met up with Captain Buck . |
| 4 | Hilda felt he was a stranger , someone she had only just met , a feeling she sometimes had when he met up with friends he 'd known before they got married . |
| 5 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 6 | ‘ Although he did something to his knee on the Monday after the Chelsea match with us , he met up with England on Friday and I 'm told , trained Saturday , Sunday , Monday , and Tuesday . |
| 7 | HE 'S THE TOPS : Reggae star Apache looks good in shorts , too , as he lines up with models Polly ( left ) and Cookie |
| 8 | PAUL GASCOIGNE , who yesterday sampled the magic of EuroDisney , fulfils his own dream tonight when he lines up against Maradona . |
| 9 | But this afternoon the 28-year-old makes the most spectacular comeback since Reggie Perrin when he lines up against Nottingham . |
| 10 | Irvine 's Jim Muir bids to his fellow Scots when he lines up against Tony Allcock — twice a former world champion — later today . |
| 11 | Perhaps the doctor would n't mind giving me a lift that morning when he drives up to town . ’ |
| 12 | He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window . |
| 13 | He gazed up at Cornelius through the unfractured lens of his spectacles . |
| 14 | Ivan 's eyes opened ; he gazed up at Rakovsky . |
| 15 | When he woke he gazed up at Dot almost as though he knew her , yet she could n't be sure if he really saw her , for his eyes had a distant faraway look like a sailor in the Navy staring across the Pacific seas . |
| 16 | ( He looks up at GUIL — embarrassed laugh . ) |
| 17 | He looks up at Paul , his face blubbery . |
| 18 | He looks up at Paul . |
| 19 | It 's no secret now that he hooked up with Oliver North and Bill Casey of the CIA in an effort to trace the hostages — all of them unaware that the DIA , through Tony Asmar 's network , already knew where they were . |
| 20 | Merlin asked Randy as he lined up behind Justin Lombard . |
| 21 | He crumpled up in agony . |
| 22 | O'Neill , the former Northern Ireland winger tipped to succeed Clough at the City Ground , still recalls the day he squared up to Ardiles and Ricky Villa , just weeks after they lapped the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires as World Cup winners . |
| 23 | He squared up to Peter and punched him lightly on the shoulder . |
| 24 | He was booked by Gallagher for ungentlemanly conduct after falling to the ground as he squared up to Pearce . |
| 25 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 26 | Huy wondered whether that eldest daughter , who worked as Reni 's secretary , had helped him destroy the documents he drew up during Akhenaten 's reign , which would have given such priceless ammunition to his enemies , before turning his attention to the newcomers . |
| 27 | He drew up in front of a pair of wrought-iron gates where he was immediately challenged by a bearded man wearing jeans and a faded black T-shirt . |
| 28 | They were both silent , busy with their own thoughts , apart from her directions , until he drew up in front of the divided house that contained her tiny flat . |
| 29 | He caught up with Garry , puffing for breath . |
| 30 | But when he caught up with Chuck , who had at last relented and allowed his breathless coolie to slow to a trot , he found the older boy grinning and lolling casually in his seat , obviously suffering no such pangs of conscience . |