Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] he [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Lamb as Mayor — he was thirteen times Mayor of Rye — had with his jurors to ride out through the wild windy night to rescue his royal guest for whom he gave up his own bedroom . |
| 2 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 3 | There was not a single soft , liberal policy for which he picked up votes . |
| 4 | So Jesus when he sees their situation , he 's not concerned by the storm by the way , he 's not put out by that because he knows he 's going to the other side , but for the sake of them he gets up and he speaks the word , Jesus he said , peace . |
| 5 | ( 8 ) In proceedings to enforce a liability arising by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above , it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed , and had reasonable cause to believe — ( a ) that the residential occupier had ceased to reside in the premises in question at the time when he was deprived of occupation as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above or , as the case may be , when the attempt was made or the acts were done as a result of which he gave up his occupation of those premises ; or ( b ) that , where the liability would otherwise arise by virtue only of the doing of acts or the withdrawal or withholding of services , he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 6 | Not when you think of what he ended up . ’ |
| 7 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 8 | Wolfgang spent a great deal of time in the company of J C Bach , with whom he struck up a friendship , and who was delighted to engage in amicable improvisation contests on the keyboard . |
| 9 | In Augsburg , he met up with his cousin , Anna Maria Thekla , with whom he struck up a lively — even unbridled — friendship . |
| 10 | The two friends with whom he joined up were not so lucky ; their deaths brought David face to face with the human cost of war and his naive teenage thoughts of glory changed to fear and loathing of war . |
| 11 | Coningham said that he had looked more closely at Scott 's scheme since the last debate , and ‘ could not acquiesce in the high opinion which that gentleman appeared to entertain of himself , judging by the long string of superlatives in his own praise with which he wound up his recent letter to The Times ' . |
| 12 | Leonard has admitted to a certain indifference to these studies , particularly his grasp of Hebrew with its strange characters and back-to-front writing ( with which he grew up ) . |
| 13 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 14 | Curiously enough , though — and most curious of all , given the world of intense cohabitation in which he grew up — Burton hated to be touched . |
| 15 | He was one of the greatest physicists there has ever been ; we have already met his work on gases , with its statistical basis , but his most important research was that in which he took up Faraday 's discoveries , giving the lines of force a mathematical expression . |
| 16 | He was well-aware of the sense in which he made up what happened to him , imagined his misfortune . |
| 17 | He was on with Mel Smith , who had done a beer commercial in which he sent up Indiana Jones — Ford 's most famous role . |
| 18 | Nkrumah also made an African tour , in which he built up his relationship with president Nasser , and went on to visit Nehru in India . |
| 19 | His mills had a reputation for supplying everything from newsprint ( for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s ) to security paper , in which he built up a huge export business to Europe , the British empire , and South America for stamps and banknotes ( his customers included almost all the best-known banks ) . |
| 20 | I do n't suppose there 's much doubt that Milton approached his marriage a little late in life with an intensity of idealism that must , to some degree , have derived from the high conception of the chastity to which he had up till then dedicated himself , and poor Mary Powell , just like Desdemona , becomes a victim of male idealisation and the unreasonable demands that it makes . |
| 21 | This was to be the visit on which he linked up with The New York Dolls . |
| 22 | Extracting information on what he got up to there is n't easy . |
| 23 | This was the point at which he drew up his application for the Mandan Foundation grant . |
| 24 | Don Regan , the blustering ex-Wall Street chief of staff , had attended the crucial meetings of the previous August and September ; but he had apparently spent the September meeting more bothered by McFarlane 's pronunciation of ‘ bona fides ’ as ‘ bonerfydies ’ than by anything he picked up about weapons shipments . |