Example sentences of "he [verb] up [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 2 | If people coming down from the North wearing British Coal Rugby League jumpers think they 're travelling away from home and the event is rather special , imagine the feelings of an Australian as he goes up that long concourse to the Vatican of the inflated rubber bladder . |
| 3 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 4 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 5 | Apparently impervious to Luke 's quick frown , he drew up another chair . |
| 6 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 7 | And he scrapes up all the soil , you see this , well Lindsay has n't got any soil , she 's just got grass , so obviously it go , comes round ! |
| 8 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |
| 9 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 10 | ‘ If he digs up any more plants , ’ Mrs Ames said , smiling , ‘ I shall be very angry . ’ |
| 11 | ( It is difficult for him … the incoming mail has become inaccessible until he frees up some of his allocated disk capacity ) . |
| 12 | Go put a poultice or something on Simon 's eye before he uses up all the raw meat in the kitchen . ’ |
| 13 | God knows why he woke up that night . |
| 14 | He was enough of a prig to revel in disgracing any poor sod he dug up some real dirt about . |
| 15 | Even if he ripped up all the pages on the table in front of him they would not be destroyed . |
| 16 | Yeah have you seen when he blows up that guy ? |
| 17 | Well then he rung up few weeks ago and he said to June , we 'll need a car for a week . |
| 18 | When that did n't work he cooked up this present plan … ’ |
| 19 | His emotions were slotted into different compartments , and he locked up those that might get in the way of a safe drive back to the cottage . |
| 20 | He scooped up some pellets and pushed them into an empty flower pot , keeping his thumb over the hole in the bottom . |
| 21 | " Well , Mr Herriot , " Con went on as he cut up some villainous-looking plug tobacco and began to stuff it into his pipe . |
| 22 | The next morning he packed up all his mother 's clothes . |
| 23 | see and he started up that way and , and the religion was the most popular thing in the country , but all the people were outlaws . |
| 24 | No sooner had he set up these new procedures than Coleman was summoned to the American Embassy in Nicosia by the Department of Defense attaché , Col. John Sasser , to whom he had reported on leaving Beirut as a CBN ‘ refugee ’ a few months earlier . |
| 25 | So when he rang up that evening to tell me he was taking a fortnight 's leave towards the end of June and what about a trip north as soon as term ended , I did feel as if the fates themselves had taken a hand . |
| 26 | He took up that morning 's Cork Examiner . |
| 27 | Like an Elizabethan tickling the back of his throat with a peacock feather to induce vomiting so he would be able to face the next enormous course , he brought up another cloud of ghosts . |
| 28 | It 's true you know if a di if a child did come out the gate , with that wee fella yesterday I saw him he was with Ryan and he went up that path like lightning . |
| 29 | In 1942 he joined forces with other keen walkers to form the North-East branch of the ramblers ' association , an interest which he kept up all his life . |
| 30 | He kept up this humbling exercise , even in the days of effortless photocopying . |