Example sentences of "he have [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
| 6 | This is afterwards , when he has got up from the couch , when he 's making a date for the next appointment and putting on his overcoat in the hall , returning to his ordinary guarded self before he walks out on to the street . |
| 7 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 8 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 9 | No , he 'd gone up to the traffic lights and this cyclist sort of like cycled up , jumped off his bike and wheeled it round the corner so he |
| 10 | Apparently he 'd fixed up with the travel agency which handled Dalgety 's bookings for you to join him at all the Grands Prix . ’ |
| 11 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 12 | He 'd drawn up outside the old town house , cut the engine . |
| 13 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 14 | Horowitz nodded as he followed Hendrix out of the cabin , carrying the case he 'd picked up from the Frankfurt villa in one hand , his executive case in the other . |
| 15 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 16 | But er there was a lot there was a lot of girls and th I do n't know what had what had happened but I mean , that was the worst thing , he 'd went up in the lift and there was quite there was some other the rest of the people in the lift er was trapped and was burned to death you know , tragic end . |
| 17 | He had overshot by fifty yards but , since there was no room to turn , he 'd backed up to the junction in a rapid , snaky line , and picked them up again after ten minutes of anxious-cautious driving — fast on the straights , slow on the bends . |
| 18 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |
| 19 | He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected . |
| 20 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 21 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 22 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 23 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 24 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 25 | But down came melancholy like a guillotine and he had to wake up before the steel cut the quivering cold sweaty flesh . |
| 26 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 27 | That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans . |
| 28 | I thought he was following me and other hotel-guests to the shelter , but he was n't ; he had gone up to the roof ‘ to watch it all ’ . |
| 29 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 30 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |