Example sentences of "he [verb] up [adj] " 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 | When he turns up next week his trousers 'll be about three inches above his shoes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He got up six books of Euclid and algebra to simple equations … and … learned all the odes of Horace by heart . ’ |
| 5 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When he built up one successful enterprise , he often lost interest in it and moved on to another . |
| 8 | William Lambarde loved Halling and during his time here he built up good relations . |
| 9 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 10 | He lined up first in the 100 metres . |
| 11 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 12 | He 's famous he 's got a wife he 's normally on the news he 's posh and he dresses up smart he writes he writes papers out . |
| 13 | He 's famous he 's got a wife he 's normally on the news he 's posh and he dresses up smart he writes he writes papers out . |
| 14 | Those last clues , He 's posh and he dresses up smart somebody rang and is it Dennis , no . |
| 15 | He 's famous he 's got a wife he 's normally on the news he 's posh and he dresses up smart he writes he writes papers out . |
| 16 | He 's famous he 's got a wife he 's normally on the news he 's posh and he dresses up smart he writes he writes papers out . |
| 17 | He 's famous he 's got a wife he 's normally on the news he 's posh and he dresses up smart he writes , he writes papers out . |
| 18 | Apparently impervious to Luke 's quick frown , he drew up another chair . |
| 19 | He drew up next to it by a red traffic light . |
| 20 | He caught up two laps before the end , Tambay 's brakes failed and Niki was home . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |
| 24 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 25 | The way things are going for him right now , he would grab a hat-trick if he played up front . |
| 26 | But all that happens at the end is that he wakes up one morning , goes outside , gets into a balloon and takes off . ’ |
| 27 | He wakes up one morning and realises he 's been an idiot . |
| 28 | He wakes up one morning and though he does n't know it , he must suspect it — the party 's over . |
| 29 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 30 | ‘ If he digs up any more plants , ’ Mrs Ames said , smiling , ‘ I shall be very angry . ’ |