Example sentences of "he [vb past] 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 whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
7 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
8 | Graham asked casually as he zipped up the holdall . |
9 | 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 ’ . |
10 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
11 | He flung up a hand and a smile of genuine warmth lit his eyes . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | He built up a hostel linked to the church for overseas students and asylum seekers . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | He was later denied the goal his performance deserved by Munday 's superb tackle as he lined up a shot . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | A Chinaman was suffering terrible toothache , so he phoned up the dentist to make an appointment . |
25 | Taking a deep breath he moved up a step . |
26 | I watched him as he bounded up a flight of narrow concrete steps and banged his fists on a shabby door . |
27 | He drew up a map of Scotland based on where the men lived and found the excess of cases in children from rural areas who had been exposed to those men . |
28 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
29 | He drew up a chair for Wycliffe and sat down himself . |
30 | ‘ I needed a break from routine rather badly , ’ he said as he drew up a chair and sat down . |