Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six minutes later Philip Jennings doubled the lead when he doubled up Scott 's through ball . |
| 2 | He got up petitions and raised money when you were arrested . |
| 3 | After leaving Eton , he built up interests in food , clothing , pharmaceuticals , shops , mining and forestry . |
| 4 | He built up Dixons , with sales last year of over £1.7 billion , after starting work at the age of 16 with his father 's portrait photography business . |
| 5 | Yeah he phoned up Danny . |
| 6 | Instead he heated up Anna 's food in a microwave as 30-year-old Mrs Love shouted instructions . |
| 7 | In 1628 , now established as chief minister , he drew up proposals for the systematic preservation of official papers of all kinds , including those relating to foreign affairs ; but nothing came of this . |
| 8 | As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London . |
| 9 | As was so often the case , he sucked up nourishment from books he happened to be reading , finding parallels in the lives of characters to his own dilemmas and solutions . |
| 10 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 11 | Hawkbit was the last to return and as he came up Hazel set off at once . |
| 12 | To her surprise and relief he came up trumps , and the next time Stephen checked her progress she was able to report that the furnishings were to standard and on time . |
| 13 | Other than that he showed up Giggs for the puke faced brat that he is ( all 10,000,000 and Papin worth of him — Ferguson will rue the day he turned down that offer ) . |
| 14 | Finally , he threw up slides showing the improvements which had already been achieved over the last three months . |
| 15 | Teague helped form what must have been the quietest back row in the history of the game when he joined up Dean Richards and Winterbottom in the 1991 Grand Slam side . |
| 16 | Miss Pickering told magistrates that he opened up accounts with names he plucked from the telephone directory . |
| 17 | In the last-named work he opened up lines of interpretation which , even if somewhat modified since , set firm foundations on which other scholars might build : the exuberant vigour and almost Niagara-like outpouring of scholarship gave it a memorable quality . |
| 18 | Apart from Gooch , seamer Prabhakar also removed Alec Stewart and Michael Atherton as he followed up India 's first innings 591 by taking three for eight in 22 balls . |
| 19 | He took me out last Sunday and I said as we were driving over to Lavenham , I said an early would be much appreciated , I said I cooked the Sunday Lunch for my lodgers , but I have n't , in fact , had any myself he said you 've got to have a high tea , he said you must have a proper meal and he ordered up salad and a a ham salad and have this and have that and have the other , where as some of them like this chap Gerald who was erm sent me by one of the other agencies the first time we went out he took me to a meal and he obviously felt that quite enough , after that he used to come out to see me after he 'd had his meal meanness , hanging onto money ! |
| 20 | He piled up snow and covered the remains . |
| 21 | And he said nothing and she did nothing until Geoffroy , the tough son , took exception to his brother Fromont taking refuge in a monastery , and when he would n't come out , he piled up brushwood and burned the whole thing down , monks and Fromont and all . |
| 22 | I had to laugh when he rung up Anita from home , he says hello gorgeous it 's me ! |
| 23 | They every time , when he rung up Radio Bristol when I was about having coffee the other morning . |
| 24 | The thought of his wife jarred him guiltily out of his fantasy and when he glanced up Karen was smiling at him . |
| 25 | Avoiding her eye , he scooped up portfolio , briefcase and half-empty mug and went out . |
| 26 | When he hung up Zen handed him the letter |
| 27 | He had been visiting the island since 1935 and during his internment as a prisoner of war he worked up plans to establish an observatory on the island after the war . |
| 28 | Hitler cemented the German-Hungarian alliance by allowing Hungary to annex Ruthenia and a strip of Southern Slovakia when he carved up Czechoslovakia in 1939 . |
| 29 | Gone were the days when he smashed up hotels and pubs , dropped his trousers on an aeroplane and climbed up a pub chimney while the fire was still alight . |
| 30 | He called up Mairi Ban and her friends from the clachan , to rehearse the coronach , the song of praise and mourning that would follow his coffin . |