Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 2 | Will my right hon. Friend tell me how best to reply to a constituent of mine who has recently completed a course of treatment at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford and who tells me that the nurses and doctors were fantastic , that the treatment was magnificent and that he is fed up to the back teeth with the constant efforts of the Labour party to undermine and talk down the achievements of the health service ? |
| 3 | The likeable Welshman , who came via the coaching route from Western Province , says he is fed up with the intrigue and politics of rugby . |
| 4 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 5 | Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe . |
| 6 | See if my husband wants a hand with these bits of wood he 's plonking up against the wall ! |
| 7 | Well then Pam made me laugh cos the tiler he , she said he 's go up on the roof and he 's there for hours ! |
| 8 | He 's dressing up as the Lincoln Imp ; the original imp is a carving in Lincoln cathedral . |
| 9 | We see how he 's shaping up to the ‘ new age ’ ahead , and offer some thoughts of our own . |
| 10 | Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries . |
| 11 | He 's hauled up by the scraped elbows , |
| 12 | I think he 's coming I think he 's coming up to the high week group , what is he ? |
| 13 | He 's something he 's , he 's , he 's some , something to do with er with er , with the area and erm , and he 's coming up for the high week group some time in the next , little while , and I said to him you were the group 's |
| 14 | and this bloke nearly had the sense , he said he 's coming up on the Friday ? |
| 15 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 16 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 17 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 18 | At the storming of this fortress on 19 January he was blown up at the head of his brigade when a French magazine exploded , killing 108 men . |
| 19 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 20 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 21 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 22 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 23 | He was b he was born up in the mountains |
| 24 | He was swallowed up in the fog . |
| 25 | As he was led up from the cells and into a cage , there was bedlam in the courtroom . |
| 26 | He was tied up in the garden but was put in a pen at night . |
| 27 | It would give him pleasure to make jokes that were n't funny while he was dressed up in the wedding-dress of a woman he claimed had been murdered also . |
| 28 | He was gazing up at the stars , probably communing with the Mother Ship and receiving new instructions . |
| 29 | He was fed up with the whole situation , and all Francesca 's family . |
| 30 | He was fed up with the politics of big business . |