Example sentences of "up and his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Parliament loomed up and his heart began to thump . |
| 2 | But he did not turn , he did not even falter , because his head was up and his feet were pounding . |
| 3 | Mr Commuter 's Pulse Goes Up And his eyelid |
| 4 | Richard looked up and his lips relaxed into a slight smile . |
| 5 | He wore a crisp white collarless shirt with the sleeves well rolled up and his baggy grey trousers were held up with a piece of string . |
| 6 | The guard — who has not been named — was told he would be blown up and his family killed if he made one false move . |
| 7 | The guard , who has not been named , was told he would be blown up and his family killed if he made one false move . |
| 8 | What fans did n't see was special effects boss Derek Meddings on the floor with his hand up her dress to keep it from ruffling up and his assistant up a ladder holding the tension on a piece of fish wire while the zip was being pulled down . |
| 9 | All this is denied to him because he has made the irreversible decision to join up and his life will never be the same again . |
| 10 | NERVE SET — Brian Eno ( WEA ) Following his collaboration with John Cale on Wrong Way Up and his production duties with U2 , Eno drags his ambient aesthetic kicking and screaming on to the dance floor . |
| 11 | He looked up and his eyes were dark , and we were both embarrassed in a way that we would n't have been if we 'd been close together , but it was better that we should stand on our own for this . |
| 12 | His arms were stiff from holding Carey up and his legs were tired . |
| 13 | Suddenly the decision was taken out of her hands when the door was flung open and there was David , grey-faced and tired , his sleeves rolled up and his hair dishevelled . |
| 14 | He was crouched in the corner by the big tiled kitchen range , his sleeves rolled up and his shirt and trousers covered in white ash . |
| 15 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 16 | The boy stood up and his expression of mixed defiance and desperation showed that it had cost him something to enter this house . |
| 17 | For the first time Spatz 's head came up and his eyes searched him out . |
| 18 | Lucas had been relieved of belt , tie , shoelaces , and everything in his pockets , and now he sat in the far corner on the mattress with his knees drawn up and his arms clasped around them , as if to present the smallest possible outer surface to the world . |
| 19 | Then Tagan , the tracker , stopped and stood in his stirrups , his head up and his eyes narrowed . |
| 20 | ‘ Na , na , na , baby ’ ducking his head down and shaking it , his elbows bent up and his clicking fingers held high behind his ears , while he footed round the room . |
| 21 | He shifted his grip on his sword and , as the leading rider drew near , stepped out onto the road with a hand held up and his face set in a grin nicely calculated to reassure yet threaten . |
| 22 | When he lost his temper , and that was often , his cheeks puffed up and his eyes shrank to two small , bottomless black pits . |
| 23 | He had his shirtsleeves rolled up and his arms folded like piled-up hocks of ham . |
| 24 | We used to split them up and his men take his that way and th we used to bring ours this way , yeah . |
| 25 | He ordered the 17 elephants lined up and his own fine beast was ranged alongside them , making 18 . |
| 26 | And er this man , Patrick , his m parents came up and his mother started talking to me . |