Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he woke he gazed up at Dot almost as though he knew her , yet she could n't be sure if he really saw her , for his eyes had a distant faraway look like a sailor in the Navy staring across the Pacific seas . |
| 2 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 3 | When he finished he looked up at me , and there were tears all down his face , and he said to me , ‘ Lend us a quid , Stu . ’ |
| 4 | When he returned he took up journalism . |
| 5 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 6 | The court heard he set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books to spend almost £6,500 . |
| 7 | Mr Sugar also claimed that Mr Venables had told him before he was sacked as chief executive last month that he was prepared to embark on a ‘ suicide mission ’ , even if it meant he finished up broke . |
| 8 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 9 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |
| 10 | Not until the fire was almost out did he wake up , swearing to find himself so wet . |
| 11 | Did he wake up then ? |
| 12 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |
| 13 | Merckx was known as ‘ the cannibal ’ , so often did he scoop up the prizes , even in minor events when he might have been expected to allow minor or local riders to have their day . |
| 14 | Did he stand up to be counted in the old days ? |
| 15 | cos I mean they do n't usually do they , but he did he came up there to see me |
| 16 | Duke Berthold sent neither the expected money nor the troops for which he had been asked nor the hostages , nor did he turn up . |
| 17 | Did he own up ? ’ |
| 18 | Did he smash up the statue himself ? |
| 19 | And thusly did he pump up the volume . |
| 20 | Did he come up with anything useful ? ’ |
| 21 | Instead I concluded he was about as frightened of death as I am so why , in the good Lord 's name , did he get up and bore us stiff telling us different ? |
| 22 | ‘ And just how did he get up there ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And anyway , how did he get up on the roof ? ’ |
| 24 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 25 | He had bent down , his hand among the grasses but as she spoke he straightened up and thrust a grubby fist into his pocket . |
| 26 | She hoped he picked up the phone quickly . |
| 27 | Why had he hung up like that ? |
| 28 | Why had he gone up the train himself to get it stopped if he had a walkie-talkie ? |
| 29 | Had he come up on the bus with us from Bishop Auckland to Willington , we 'd probably have asked for one and a half . |
| 30 | Had he woken up and looked out of one of the bedroom windows he would have seen his wife in the moonlight pulling desperately at the handle on a manhole cover . |