Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 2 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 3 | Naturally he he wanted to keep his place open and when he got up the next morning somebody had painted the side of the van completely over . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , in the Doubles final Ian McClure was heading for his second Irish title when he built up a 19-6 lead after 13 ends over James Talbot and Michael Nutt of Old Bleach . |
| 5 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 6 | He built up a complete instrument and travelled round the Dales on a horse and cart playing it . |
| 7 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 8 | Meanwile , Roland had become self-employed in 1978 , and while sub-contracting during the day , he built up a small nucleus of clients in the evenings with Alison 's help . |
| 9 | Born in Hereford in 1855 , he became known throughout his native county as he built up a detailed knowledge of the countryside of Herefordshire and the Welsh border . |
| 10 | He built up a considerable reputation in chart-making , his advice being sought in 1680 and again in 1685 by Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] , secretary to the Admiralty . |
| 11 | And he built up a whole business just by picking famous names and saying , look I think your design is really outdated and it 's not doing your image any good . |
| 12 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 13 | He built up a large practice , relying especially on ‘ native ’ clients , and earned enough money to enable him to live in a very opulent way , even if he did not save any considerable fortune . |
| 14 | Through the favour of the king and of the Earl of Gloucester he built up a large estate in Kent and elsewhere : a royal grant of 1315 enumerates lands in forty-six places spread through eight counties . |
| 15 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |
| 16 | He lined up the dead centre of the target and scored with a long , spiralling burst . |
| 17 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 18 | He moved up the tricky little wall ( the technical crux ) to the roof , and draped a thick sling over the huge pointed spike known as the Cheeseblock . |
| 19 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 20 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 21 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 22 | How he snatched up a fallen branch , when the young man came down the path , and struck him with it , and he fell senseless , and the hood fell back from his head . |
| 23 | He snatched up the green telephone on his desk and punched out an internal number . |
| 24 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 25 | He strolled up the long arcade , pausing frequently to peer in shop windows at the expensive goodies . |
| 26 | Slowly he lifted up a black hat . |
| 27 | when he lifted up the slimy surprise |
| 28 | The gunman looked around him wildly and the crowd parted as he darted up a narrow alleyway . |
| 29 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 30 | He woke up a few minutes later . |