Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He crumpled up in agony . |
| 5 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ECHO chief photographer Stephen Shakeshaft found himself in the middle of a real cat and mouse game right in the heart of the city as he caught up with cartoon characters Tom and Jerry . |
| 9 | He rose up on tiptoe , looking round for James , Allan , and the rest . |
| 10 | He knelt up in front of me , our bodies touching from shoulder to knee , his hands in my hair , his mouth at the side of mine . |
| 11 | He strolled up to No 10 , the door opened but Lord Hesketh kept going . |
| 12 | He came up for coffee , then his car would n't start . |
| 13 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 14 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 15 | Dene Stallard says three years ago his boat flipped on the water and he woke up in hospital … |
| 16 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |
| 17 | He turned up without fail but there was an ordinariness about him . |
| 18 | He climbed up on stage . |
| 19 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 20 | Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course . |
| 21 | He started up in alarm , staring dazedly , and then , realising his lapse , paled with mortification . |
| 22 | Julian never paid back the money , even though he started up in business again and eventually did all right for himself . |
| 23 | He pulled up in front of the high iron grille gates barring the entrance to a drive , saw in his headlights a speakphone set into one of the brick pillars . |
| 24 | He pulled up in front of the stone steps and got out of the car . |
| 25 | Three hours later , hot and frustrated with waiting , she tackled Fernando as soon as he pulled up in front of the house . |
| 26 | ‘ At least you left Fernando on good terms , ’ he went on as he pulled up in front of the stone steps of the mansion that Ruth had fled down a century ago . |
| 27 | When it did , he covered up with bluff , and only rarely carne unstuck . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , for Third Lanark 's dwindling fans , he sobered up at half-time and duly let in five goals . |
| 29 | His earliest purchase , in about 1911 , was of 1.5 hectares , including a brickyard pond , in the Eastbourne area , which he planted up in order to attract , amongst other birds , breeding Marsh Warblers . |
| 30 | Keith was told that if he went up to bed at 9pm his father would read him a story while he had a quarter cup of cold drinking chocolate . |