Example sentences of "he [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a warmth and a charm about him that made for easy relations with most people , even the press , and they helped him build up the confidence that was needed all round . |
| 2 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 3 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 4 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 5 | He says the year and a half he 's spent in America has helped him grow up a little . |
| 6 | A new car , a Porsche , showing off to friends , laughing , not really concentrating — The accident should have made him grow up a little . |
| 7 | I 'm waiting on him picking up the machine . |
| 8 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 9 | Now , £100 000 from the Department of Industry has enabled him to set up a full-time commercial unit to analyse samples sent from Europe as well as Britain . |
| 10 | Again Ted demurred , but the Parliamentary Party 's unease over the procedure for new leadership elections caused him to set up a review committee under Alec Home . |
| 11 | Dutta said Guppy also asked him to set up an account in Geneva which he used to channel nearly £500,000 following the fake robbery and insurance payout . |
| 12 | A COLLEAGUE 'S 4½-year-old son has asked him to set up the video camera in front of the chimney on Christmas Eve to catch Santa on camera . |
| 13 | He joined the company in 1960 when asked him to set up the Company 's first electrical department . |
| 14 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 15 | Although he was no relation to Charles , his surname had inspired him to pick up the pen . |
| 16 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 17 | He 'll be all right , you do n't want him growing up a wimp . |
| 18 | I heard him pumping up the pressure and singing a folk song which began , ‘ We do n't smoke pot in Norwich City ’ . |
| 19 | I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his |
| 20 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |
| 21 | Custodio , who had been in charge of his security , said during the trial that the former armed forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Fabian Ver , who left the Philippines with Marcos in 1986 , had instructed him to draw up the security plan for Benigno Aquino 's arrival . |
| 22 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 23 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 24 | His quest for adventure led him to give up the business and sail around the world with a friend in 1980 — but disaster struck . |
| 25 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 26 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 27 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 28 | There was a receipt showing that after lack of money forced him to give up the flat , in 1989 , he bought a luxury caravan . |
| 29 | Persistent ill health induced him to give up the surveyorship at Christ 's Hospital in January 1816 and that of the Bethlehem Hospital the following year . |
| 30 | When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead . |