Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a sojourn in Northumbria one of these ‘ academic high-flyers ’ remained implacably ‘ not one of us ’ , and I heard him summed up in the following terms : |
| 2 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 3 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 4 | He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look . |
| 5 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 6 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 7 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 8 | It was a great performance by the sergeant as he strolled up to The Mighty Tharg . |
| 9 | Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution . |
| 10 | He came up with the electric clock , a form of fire alarm , a railway signal and a loudspeaker . |
| 11 | He came up on the other side shaking dirt from his fine white feathers . |
| 12 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 13 | He wrinkled his nose as he came up to the other man . |
| 14 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 15 | He woke up to the nauseating smell of burning skin and a roaring sound . |
| 16 | Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly . |
| 17 | ‘ And once he woke up in the early morning , and saw a rat in the middle of the floor , looking at him . |
| 18 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 20 | " With all this equipment for moving things about the place , " he gestured up towards the moving line of clinking cutlery above their heads , looping under the assorted ducting and swivelled prisms of the kitchens ' ceiling . |
| 21 | The 1988 Scottish Grand National winner Mighty Mark has been missing engagements since the start of the season but finally appeared at Corbridge where he trotted up in the Open . |
| 22 | He faced up to the notorious Chelsea Boot Boys with an electrified fence but was refused permission to switch it on . |
| 23 | He clambered up behind the long bonnet , onto the padded bucket seat . |
| 24 | Ian Stewart got to know Paul Gascoigne well when he teamed up with the troubled Lazio and England star at Newcastle . |
| 25 | He walked up to the front door and pushed a button but the chimes went unanswered . |
| 26 | ‘ As you should know from your own experiences ’ — he glanced up at the framed portrait of Commonweal School staff and pupils , September 1948 — ‘ the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy . |
| 27 | He pulled up on the hard shoulder , switched off and got out . |
| 28 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 29 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 30 | He looked up into the black sky and waved his fist at the stars . |