Example sentences of "he [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim .
2 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 .
3 He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand .
4 Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale .
5 Graham asked casually as he zipped up the holdall .
6 But he got up the front of the line and he got the job .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 A Chinaman was suffering terrible toothache , so he phoned up the dentist to make an appointment .
10 Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ?
11 With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard .
12 He snatched up the worm-cake and bit into it , forcing the bitter chocolate past the awful gagging in his throat .
13 But despite his willingness to collaborate with this tall , blond , handsome editor and publisher with his square , even teeth invariably clamped over fat Turkish cigarettes and whose ice-blue eyes sometimes narrowed as he weighed up the profit or nuisance value of a potential contributor , Vaughan regarded Lehmann critically , detecting mistrust and calculation behind the editor 's apparent kindness and friendliness .
14 He staggered up the gang-plank , waving goodbye to the policemen , and by the time the cameras were due to roll , he was in make-up and wardrobe ready for his first scene .
15 He dished up the casserole , and they ate in silence .
16 ‘ The tree in the forest , where he sealed up the dybbuk … ’
17 So how did the work out because as far as I know the the riveter got the cash and then he divvied up the money between
18 I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself .
19 He came up the week before on his own but he played two rounds every day .
20 He came up the garden shouting something — they did not properly hear him .
21 When he woke up the music was still there .
22 So when he woke up the donkey was looking at him .
23 He filled up the doorway with his uneasy bulk and there was defiance in his eyes .
24 I 've been with my father when he measured up the stack .
25 When I told him I could not come he turned up the collar of his coat and walked away , looking at the pavement beside the unlit shop windows , hands deep in his pockets , and passed into the night going towards the Bridge of Three Eyes .
26 He turned up the heater .
27 He turned up the volume loud , turned the knob to atmospherics , walked quickly to the window .
28 so he dug up the lawn and put a little garage in
29 As he fired up the twin engines I wondered just what instruments had once occupied the vacant holes in the dashboard , from which empty holes there now trailed forlorn scraps of wiring .
30 He fired up the gas logs to supplement the background heating and they sat on the Chesterfield .
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