Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] up his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen wrote from France urging him to give up his Anglican religion and accept Presbyterianism ; for to her as a Roman Catholic , the King remarked , all other religions appeared equally bad . |
| 2 | Jordan says he picked up his first guitar when he was four years old . |
| 3 | Vincent once tried to persuade him to give up his safe career and join him as a fellow painter — like other famous brothers in art history . |
| 4 | After his father 's death in 1885 the cable companies persuaded him to set up his own manufacturing business , Muirhead & Company , which was so successful that in 1894 he was able to take over his father 's old firm when it was finally wound up . |
| 5 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 6 | Presumably he intended it to fire up his own team , but predictably it did just that to the opposition . |