Example sentences of "he has [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to weigh up the possibility of a conviction for something , as opposed to the accused walking free . |
| 2 | In many ways they do not have the resources we have in the West , but in Leipzig Masur has a pool of well over 200 musicians whom he has trained up very well . |
| 3 | He always travels on the back of the lorry where he has to pop up and turn , but he does n't mind at all . ’ |
| 4 | Ooh gosh and me dad yes , he used to do er , er , er , just a , he did n't do , do too many but he , he had , like a sort of a push truck like , you know and he has to go up and that , that only round not too far and he , he like to do it I think more . |
| 5 | He has shot up and seized his chance with both hands . |
| 6 | He has to give up his egocentricity and develop the beginnings of a more altruistic point of view . |
| 7 | I am a pawn and bishop down after 12 moves , but have only half an eye on the game now , which seems to make me play better , or Sergei play worse , for he has pushed up his queen too far and is having trouble defending it . |
| 8 | Against bands of ‘ experts ’ and administrators , he has stood up for sensible methods of teaching and testing . |
| 9 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 10 | The Storehouse chairman feels far more at home leading the expansion of the group he has built up so assiduously . |
| 11 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 12 | He has built up an extensive wine list in close co-operation with Peter Davenport , and is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about it . |
| 13 | He has built up a strong , ecumenical team of Christians and Hindus which is unusual for a centre of this kind . |
| 14 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 15 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 16 | Customer goodwill which Fred reckons he has built up . |
| 17 | Hamburg now has one of the great ballet companies of the world , thanks to John Neumeier ( Director since 1973 ) and the wonderful international team he has built up . |
| 18 | And then : he has rendered up countless souls to the creatures of the Cruachan Caves , thought Nuadu . |
| 19 | He has turned up in Australia , has n't he ? ’ |
| 20 | More recently he has turned up in The Fisher King and At Play in the Fields of the Lord , and he has a small role in Coppola 's forthcoming Dracula . |
| 21 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 22 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 23 | In the theatre , he argues , there is ( a ) an internal dramatist — who makes up the characters and their actions ; ( b ) an internal actor — who represents to the reader for his benefit the actions he has made up as dramatist ; and , finally , ( c ) an internal audience . |
| 24 | Consultation is a form of limited participation in decision-making for subordinates , but there might be a tendency for a manager to appear to consult his subordinates when really he has made up his mind beforehand . |
| 25 | As the Secretary of State was never coy about telling us that he opposed the directive , will he tell us — as there is a meeting on Wednesday , I assume that he has made up his mind about whether he will agree to that part of the social charter — whether he has changed his mind or whether the Prime Minister has changed it for him ? |
| 26 | He has made up his mind that there was a Big Bang and that is that . |
| 27 | He has stashed up reserves of arms , and can probably get more . |
| 28 | ‘ I just ca n't watch myself , ’ he said in Santander yesterday where he has joined up with the England team to watch tonight 's match against Spain . |
| 29 | Like a growing number of promoters , Geoff knows that keeping the style inside means keeping the ‘ riff-raff ’ — the Ecstasy raconteurs , the ten-a-penny ravers , the baseball caps — out , and to this end he has called up that ghost of clubbing past , the door policy . |
| 30 | In his 33 games , he has called up a staggering 76 players and used 56 of them . |