Example sentences of "up his [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned his attention to rounding up his clothes and packing them in the holdall . |
| 2 | But he had inherited his father 's ability , and he was just getting things straight again when he was badly hit by a prolonged series of dock strikes that tied up his ships and prevented them from earning anything . |
| 3 | She took Mungo 's case , hung up his mac and led him to a fire as lively as the one in the waiting-room . |
| 4 | He straightens up his mac and gives me a real serious look . |
| 5 | A waiting gowned and masked midwife took the baby , and Dr Jones hitched up his mask and followed her into the incubator nursery . |
| 6 | He picked up his clock and put it by his bed because he had to wake up at seven o'clock . |
| 7 | They make up his hope and give him his strength . |
| 8 | Champion picked up his whip and waved it at his mount to encourage him over those last few yards , and Aldaniti responded gamely . |
| 9 | When Mr Major ran for party leader , the terrier-like figure of Mrs Shephard joined his campaign team early on , rounded up his support and delivered him a victory which he was swift to reward with the post of Minister of State in the Treasury . |
| 10 | He picked up his glasses and rubbed them up on the tablecloth . |
| 11 | As we were turning to follow his directions , he drew up his cuff and showed us the blue tattooed cross that all Copts have on the inside of their wrists . |
| 12 | Every time he said theme or ultimate theme he held up his finger and waggled it in front of his nose . |
| 13 | Gabriel tied up his pony and followed him . |
| 14 | Philip scraped up his potato and swallowed it fast . |
| 15 | Inside a private house in Beauchamp Place , Knightsbridge , Michael picked up his cards and studied them carefully . |
| 16 | These are acceptable , but the witch who , at ‘ by the pricking of my thumbs ’ , held up his thumbs and twiddled them for us all to check out was excessive . |
| 17 | As the couple approached him , George could not hear what remarks were passed but saw the dull flush of anger suffuse the shepherd 's face , as the farmer picked up his wrist and spanned it , passing his hands up the man 's arms to judge his muscles . |
| 18 | Nigger picked up his scotch and tossed it back in one easy movement . |
| 19 | ‘ The war , the war , the bloody war ! ’ said Comfort , screwing up his handkerchief and giving it back to him . |
| 20 | He said , on his death-bed , that they could bury his body but when his flesh had rotted they must dig up his skull and keep it in the house or some dreadful disaster would come . |
| 21 | Cornelius threw up his hands and brought them down amidst a torrent of hair . |
| 22 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 23 | Now , she wondered whether the moon crept into his mind too , driving him to pick up his rod and mark her back . |
| 24 | They had suddenly pulled up his breeches and made him stand in the corner . |
| 25 | Jesus told his disciples , if any man would come after me , let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me . |
| 26 | There are some tantalising references to a defence of " fair information on a matter of public interest " , notably in the case of Webb v Times Publishing Co : Donald Hume murdered Stanley Setty , cut up his body and threw it out of an aircraft over the Essex marshes . |
| 27 | The hound had been given something of Sir Henry 's to smell so that it would pick up his scent and follow him . |
| 28 | Colin picked up his coffee and drank it at a gulp . |
| 29 | ‘ She bit me last night , ’ he said , dragging up his trouser-leg and showing her the line of tiny red marks . |
| 30 | An ex-IBMer on a British Rail sleeper recently complained he could put his VISA card into a machine somewhere 35,000 feet up , and put his computer in-bleeper to the phone mouthpiece , and it would automatically dial up his E-mail and give him his messages . |