Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 2 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 3 | He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look . |
| 4 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |
| 5 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 6 | I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism . |
| 7 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 8 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 9 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
| 11 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 12 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
| 13 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 14 | When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty . |
| 15 | He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing . |
| 16 | ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet . |
| 17 | ‘ He slept like a log and when he got up in the morning and saw the car had gone he was very upset , ’ said a source . |
| 18 | He straightened up from the binnacle and jabbed a finger painfully into my chest . |
| 19 | I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about . |
| 20 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 21 | He gazed up in the air and appeared to be musing to the ceiling . |
| 22 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 23 | When I was a lad a man went in the ar , he hooked up with the army if he 'd got no trade and no hope |
| 24 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 25 | He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him . |
| 26 | He moved up to the counter with the air of a man who does n't like having to go through a routine once again but is prepared to do so , all right then here 's my card if you insist ! |
| 27 | He moved up through the system rapidly enough to make his mark without looking flashy . |
| 28 | Admitted to the livery in 1822 , he moved up through the ranks to become master in 1828–30 , thereafter sitting in the court of assistants . |
| 29 | He squared up to the putt once . |
| 30 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |