Example sentences of "he [vb past] up [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 2 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 3 | Apparently impervious to Luke 's quick frown , he drew up another chair . |
| 4 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |
| 5 | God knows why he woke up that night . |
| 6 | Well then he rung up few weeks ago and he said to June , we 'll need a car for a week . |
| 7 | He scooped up some pellets and pushed them into an empty flower pot , keeping his thumb over the hole in the bottom . |
| 8 | see and he started up that way and , and the religion was the most popular thing in the country , but all the people were outlaws . |
| 9 | So when he rang up that evening to tell me he was taking a fortnight 's leave towards the end of June and what about a trip north as soon as term ended , I did feel as if the fates themselves had taken a hand . |
| 10 | He took up that morning 's Cork Examiner . |
| 11 | Like an Elizabethan tickling the back of his throat with a peacock feather to induce vomiting so he would be able to face the next enormous course , he brought up another cloud of ghosts . |
| 12 | It 's true you know if a di if a child did come out the gate , with that wee fella yesterday I saw him he was with Ryan and he went up that path like lightning . |
| 13 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 14 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 15 | He grew up that day , and never again saw his father as a being who could do anything and was never at a loss . |
| 16 | His head dropped , his wings sagged , and he gave up any attempt to fly out , not just then but ever . |
| 17 | Bob Ivie 's speciality was his Hawaiian Punch , made to a secret Hawaiian recipe which became less secret every time he mixed up another batch before an audience , and which changed in its details anyway . |
| 18 | He sat up all night and into the next day until he heard a soft mewling sound like a kitten and knew that the child had been safely delivered after all that pain . |
| 19 | He has a place in Cheltenham in England which he set up some years ago , and he also has a retreat in the French alps in St Claude , and his aim , apparently , is to de-program people who have been through religious sects such as Scientologists , Moonies and now the Hare Krishnas . |
| 20 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 21 | John failed dismally , however , when he set up any business with a partner . |
| 22 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 23 | He picked up another bottle . |
| 24 | Joseph scowled back with mock ferocity at his brother as he picked up another glass and he was sipping it more circumspectly when a grinning dark-haired French youth of about eighteen approached them , holding out his hand . |
| 25 | She nodded , then , as he picked up another chair , she said , ‘ Leave that one , please . |
| 26 | He picked up some notes as well . |
| 27 | He picked up some biscuits . |