Example sentences of "up [prep] his [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few extra minutes while he went up for his loser 's medal would n't have made much difference . |
| 2 | He looked like a low-grade bookmaker dressed up for his daughter 's wedding , and he was clearly very pleased with himself this evening . |
| 3 | Leith felt sick to her stomach when Mr Ardis , either not believing that his son had just pounced unencouraged on her , or perhaps covering up for his son 's weaknesses , told her that a month 's severance pay would be sent to her , and dismissed her on the spot . |
| 4 | But there , Field , feted as a celebrity , and roundly fed up of his employer 's parsimony , began to build his own career . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'll grow up with rickets like the rest of 'em , ’ she said , rubbing Patrick 's thin legs which failed to support him when he attempted to pull himself up against his father 's chair . |
| 6 | The worker is now taken up with his boss 's needs . |
| 7 | In 1907 he joined Straker Squires in Bristol and four years later teamed up with his father 's engineering firm . |
| 8 | Up into his government 's headquarters ; down into his family apartments and bunker . |
| 9 | Opening his eyes Benny looked up into his brother 's tearstained face . |
| 10 | He looked up into his mother 's calm , kind eyes . |
| 11 | The boy looked up into his father 's dark glowering face and tried his best to smile . |
| 12 | Eventually all is set for Culkin , now holed up in his uncle 's deserted townhouse , to wire the rooms , set traps on the stairs , gather inflammable materials and treat Pesci and Stern to a far more violent onslaught than was executed in Home Alone 1 . |
| 13 | When Macaulay holes up in his uncle 's deserted house , he treats Pesci and Stern to a cartoon-like sadistic onslaught which goes way beyond what was served up in Home Alone 1 . |
| 14 | Tan grew up in his grandmother 's village in Hunang Province , in southern China — a land , he says , whose culture is far removed from that of the main country — more ritualistic , mysterious , shamanistic . |
| 15 | That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public . |
| 16 | He has been caught up in his club 's poor form , the former English champions having slipped into the bottom half of the Premier League . |
| 17 | He picks me up in his mother 's car and we drive through Colonia Escalon to a roundabout where cars park beside Snack stalls . |
| 18 | It 's hard to give your heart to a man who dresses up in his mother 's ball-gown and corsets . |
| 19 | Even as he spoke , this avenue closed up in his mind 's eye like a pupil contracting to a black point . |
| 20 | That did n't amount to much and most of it was second-hand , picked up from his wife 's artless prattle and staff-room gossip . |
| 21 | As incessant rain lashed the town in late July , 1798 , to be followed on the 28th of that month by one of the worst floods in living memory , John 's health can hardly have improved — and who knows what bacteria he was daily picking up from his father 's butchery ? |
| 22 | He had , once he left school , gone to university and lived up to his parents ' expectations by gaining a law degree with honours . |
| 23 | Horace Walpole describes the effect of walking through the grotto into the garden in language that both recalls Eloisa to Abelard and anticipates descriptions in the Gothic novel : ‘ The passing through the gloom from the grotto to opening day ; the retiring and again assembling shades ; the dusky groves , the larger lawn , and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that led up to his mother 's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgement . ’ |
| 24 | The big doors would open for them and close on them and McCloy and the men who were ‘ not quite up to his class ' would unload them and store the cargoes here . |
| 25 | Although so alike physically , she felt sure that Jonna would not stand up to his father 's rage , as George would have done . |
| 26 | The Young King failed to live up to his father 's hopes . |
| 27 | Papanek did explain that stories were commissioned on both Rugby World Cups , but both times they were not up to his magazine 's standards . |
| 28 | His prize money more than doubled Hendry 's seasonal earnings , which stood at £92,950 from the nine events leading up to his week 's work at the London venue . |
| 29 | The 27-year-old car bomber was charged with killing Paolo Borsellino , who was blown up outside his mother 's flat in Sicily on July 19 . |
| 30 | Campbell turned up at his Mum 's birthday party last night with an unusual present — the match ball awarded to him in recognition of his treble . |