Example sentences of "up [adv] as he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked up desperately as he saw the other assassin now approach , his dagger raised , waiting to strike . |
| 2 | If he had a new night special , even if he later grew to like her , he would start by trying to play her up just as he had me , and , since she had told me herself , Daisy Yates . |
| 3 | He 's pulled our strings as if we were his puppets , and there I was , all ready to touch you up just as he wanted . |
| 4 | He straightened up easily as he spoke , and the lidded gaze moved laconically down over the outline of her body beneath the thin bedcover . |
| 5 | He 'd put his elbow up slightly as he took the bag from her because sometimes she would clout him with it . |
| 6 | Hatch looked up sharply as he placed the box of shrubs on the side . |
| 7 | Short looked up angrily as he remembered the events of that day . |
| 8 | Behind him , Farquhar propped him up unobtrusively as he swayed slightly , his glazed expression half-hidden by his neatly-brushed beard . |
| 9 | " I do n't know why I came , I ca n't possibly tell them , " she thought as she watched the tiny man , perched up high as he circled meticulously round about on his chosen futureless employment , shouting : " Wor'-oss , Wor'-oss " to the dogs that followed him , as faithfully as seagulls follow a plough , when he made one of his grand and speedy turns . |
| 10 | Dominic , whose face was still coated with food , looked up trucently as he passed and Wexford said , because he could n't resist it : |