Example sentences of "he [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Kevin John Porter , 28 , was stopped by police in Commercial Street , Darlington , last summer after drinking with a friend who asked him to fill up the car . |
| 32 | However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary . |
| 33 | " He 's been shaking like this ever since he was sixteen years old , " the Keraing told us , " when he first had the experience which made him take up the profession . |
| 34 | Toby saw him take up the pile of wet flannel from beside the bath and chuck it at his face . |
| 35 | And we 'd go across and I would help him to couple up the various coaches and that . |
| 36 | But Palmer 's connection with the Union enabled him to build up a link with leaders of the advanced wing of the high church party . |
| 37 | It was important for him to build up a body of allies to ensure his succession on his father 's death , but he overreached himself , was regarded as a rebel and was killed , after being defeated in battle by Chlothar . |
| 38 | It 's the only real explanation Tolby had for him starting up the divorce proceedings again . |
| 39 | His mother was a little surprised to see him coming up the garden path crying his eyes out just half an hour later . |
| 40 | Key was surprised when I asked him to clear up the controversy . |
| 41 | Carrie watched him go up the steep main street . |
| 42 | Often Hickey is besieged by fans who want him to turn up the vocals and they make their point forcibly . |
| 43 | Everyone watched him stride up the aisle towards the door at the back of the auditorium . |
| 44 | Sien 's mother had helped him sweep up the plaster littering the place . |
| 45 | But him put up a fight . |
| 46 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 47 | I could hear him pick up the telephone and dial a number . |
| 48 | She had her back to him when she heard him pick up the mug . |
| 49 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 50 | After a while he went out into the hall and I heard him pick up the thing that makes noises and which he talks into when there 's no-one here . |
| 51 | This will enable him to check up the elector 's signature , number and polling district letter or letters on the nomination paper . |
| 52 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 53 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 54 | If necessary , the Arbroath batsman will try to take a year out of college — if that proves possible — which would also allow him to take up an offer to spend next winter playing for Newtons at Stellenbosch . |
| 55 | John Lowe 's mental attainments at the age of 18 were so great that his father saw nothing incongruous in advising him to take up the law as a profession . |
| 56 | Chris Hani , chief of staff of MK , was not allocated a portfolio , pending a request by the SACP to release him to take up the post of deputy SACP general secretary full-time . |
| 57 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |
| 58 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 59 | She pictured him working up a sweat . |
| 60 | As she watched him striding up the beach she tried to consider what he had said but with his loss the full weight of her grief hit her with a thud that stopped her eyes , her ears , her brain . |