Example sentences of "and his [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crash goes his belly and his arms flap up like a corkscrew lever . |
| 2 | The man reared back in pain and his hands went up to his face . |
| 3 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 4 | Lew Grade and his successors put up with them , because the regulators did not prevent the companies making a profit . |
| 5 | Every time Sharon 's father Steve walks past the spot where she was killed , he stops and stares and his eyes fill up with tears . |
| 6 | He felt his nose crease and his eyes screw up with pleasure . |
| 7 | He allowed his papers to drop on to the cabin floor , and his eyes lit up with interest . |
| 8 | And when the Captain-General and his men turned up in the afternoon — all in polished armour , and bearing a gaudy new flag adorned with the arms of Castile and Leon and a Madonna and Child — they were dismayed ? embarrassed ? horrified ? amused ? ( history does not record ) to find no sea in sight ; just hundreds of yards of black and rank-smelling mud . |