Example sentences of "he [vb past] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 2 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 3 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 4 | He plunged up the embankment , taking a grateful breath of fresh air , then turned and extended a large imperative hand to Catherine Crane and pulled her up beside him . |
| 5 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 6 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 7 | Graham asked casually as he zipped up the holdall . |
| 8 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 11 | He built up the Agricultural Training School of Pyinmana , spoke Burmese like a Burman , and was an out-and-out evangelist . |
| 12 | He built up the textile , sugar and cement industries , he introduced electrification , and he embarked on a vastly ambitious railway across the country , linking the Persian Gulf to the Caspian . |
| 13 | A brilliant if at times eccentric leader , he built up the press from scratch into a respected publishing house , noted in particular for its work in the literary field , and in machine intelligence , now known as artificial intelligence . |
| 14 | He lined up the dead centre of the target and scored with a long , spiralling burst . |
| 15 | Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm . |
| 16 | A Chinaman was suffering terrible toothache , so he phoned up the dentist to make an appointment . |
| 17 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ? |
| 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 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 23 | He snatched up the worm-cake and bit into it , forcing the bitter chocolate past the awful gagging in his throat . |
| 24 | He snatched up the green telephone on his desk and punched out an internal number . |
| 25 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 26 | With that he snatched up the bottle and flung it through the open window into the yard . |
| 27 | But despite his willingness to collaborate with this tall , blond , handsome editor and publisher with his square , even teeth invariably clamped over fat Turkish cigarettes and whose ice-blue eyes sometimes narrowed as he weighed up the profit or nuisance value of a potential contributor , Vaughan regarded Lehmann critically , detecting mistrust and calculation behind the editor 's apparent kindness and friendliness . |
| 28 | He staggered up the gang-plank , waving goodbye to the policemen , and by the time the cameras were due to roll , he was in make-up and wardrobe ready for his first scene . |
| 29 | He strolled up the long arcade , pausing frequently to peer in shop windows at the expensive goodies . |
| 30 | when he lifted up the slimy surprise |