Example sentences of "he [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it . |
| 2 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 3 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 4 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 5 | He plunged up the embankment , taking a grateful breath of fresh air , then turned and extended a large imperative hand to Catherine Crane and pulled her up beside him . |
| 6 | He turns up the Holloway Road , with its rows of pubs for men a long way from home . |
| 7 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |
| 8 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 9 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 10 | Graham asked casually as he zipped up the holdall . |
| 11 | Having spent years in prison under the old régime , years that had taken their toll and made him look well over seventy , he got up every morning now , threw open the windows of his apartment , and breathed in ‘ the good clean air of freedom ’ . |
| 12 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 13 | He flung up a hand and a smile of genuine warmth lit his eyes . |
| 14 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 15 | Merckx was known as ‘ the cannibal ’ , so often did he scoop up the prizes , even in minor events when he might have been expected to allow minor or local riders to have their day . |
| 16 | But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) . |
| 17 | He was one of the first eminent European scientists to make a career in the USA , and rapidly became a lion : his lectures and books were popular , and he built up a school and museum at Harvard . |
| 18 | Here he built up a trade in seeds , corn , manure , and fertilizer , and started a malt kiln in Driffield and a brewery and kilns in Malton . |
| 19 | He built up a hostel linked to the church for overseas students and asylum seekers . |
| 20 | It appeared that Tyminski had left Poland penniless in 1969 , travelling first to Sweden and then to Canada , where he built up a business empire centred on a computer automation firm . |
| 21 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 22 | Through applying Mach 's training ideas , by putting in unpaid coaching for two or three hours a day , five days a week , and by keeping his doors open , he built up a group of 30 young sprinters in Toronto within a year . |
| 23 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 24 | He built up the textile , sugar and cement industries , he introduced electrification , and he embarked on a vastly ambitious railway across the country , linking the Persian Gulf to the Caspian . |
| 25 | A brilliant if at times eccentric leader , he built up the press from scratch into a respected publishing house , noted in particular for its work in the literary field , and in machine intelligence , now known as artificial intelligence . |
| 26 | He was later denied the goal his performance deserved by Munday 's superb tackle as he lined up a shot . |
| 27 | Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm . |
| 28 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
| 29 | A Chinaman was suffering terrible toothache , so he phoned up the dentist to make an appointment . |
| 30 | He holds up a stick for all to see . |