Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 2 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 3 | But he made up for it there by scoring a half century . |
| 4 | He was aware of one thing about Ken on these trips : his concern about a lack of education which he made up for with his voracious reading . |
| 5 | I always thought that what he lacked in defensive qualities he made up for in attacking qualities . |
| 6 | Having failed English Alevel , five years on he made up for this by getting a first for his thesis and a fine arts degree from Portsmouth Polytechnic . |
| 7 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 8 | In this chapter Lewis Carroll uses a word which is n't in the English dictionary , he uses a word he made up with his vivid imagination — ‘ Contrariwise ’ which means to be contrary . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I visited him and he dosed up like a clam . |
| 11 | The large nylon-clad bottom swished close to Charles ' face as he limped up after her . |
| 12 | When I got back from Maslins ’ that day and wanted to know where you were , he clammed up on me . ’ |
| 13 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 14 | She threw him a kiss as he winked up at her , smiling . |
| 15 | In 1904 he met up with a man named Blaney , and Young Buffalo was born . |
| 16 | He reached the rendezvous safely where he met up with Captain Buck . |
| 17 | In 1957 he met up with some of the world 's leading canoeists who had fled the Hungarian uprising and this fostered an interest and ambition to see Britain rise from the status of also rans to the achieving of Olympic and World Championship medals . |
| 18 | ‘ Although he did something to his knee on the Monday after the Chelsea match with us , he met up with England on Friday and I 'm told , trained Saturday , Sunday , Monday , and Tuesday . |
| 19 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 20 | In Augsburg , he met up with his cousin , Anna Maria Thekla , with whom he struck up a lively — even unbridled — friendship . |
| 21 | Jimmy watched him , wondering how long it would be before he met up with this guy again on the street . |
| 22 | He met up with old colleagues such as Mike Evans and Graham Knight who gave him a typically ex-London welcome . |
| 23 | Hilda felt he was a stranger , someone she had only just met , a feeling she sometimes had when he met up with friends he 'd known before they got married . |
| 24 | And manager Tommy Jackson finally declared his hand when he met up with rival Fraser at Monday 's Football Writers ' dinner . |
| 25 | Yesterday he met up with Scottish Ballet 's music director and fellow Australian , Alan Barker , to go over the details of their collaboration . |
| 26 | Yesterday he met up with Scottish Ballet 's music director and fellow Australian , Alan Barker , to go over the details of their collaboration . |
| 27 | He lunged up towards her , petrified . |
| 28 | He got up on one elbow . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | He got up as if he had n't slept a wink . |