Example sentences of "he [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 2 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 3 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 4 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 5 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 6 | He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ? |
| 7 | GARY ARMSTRONG will take another giant step towards reviving his Scotland career when he lines up for the Barbarians at Leicester on December 28 . |
| 8 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 9 | JEREMY McWilliams faces the big one tomorrow when , as the first Ulster rider in the newly constituted 500cc World motor cycling championship , he lines up against the cream of the international circus at Eastern Creek , Sydney , for the Australian Grand Prix , the first round in the series . |
| 10 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 11 | He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look . |
| 12 | In the bronze medal fight against Axel Lobenstein , of East Germany , White appeared to start with more aggressive determination , but his attacks were way off target and he was thrown for a yuko ( five points ) as he got up off the ground . |
| 13 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 14 | I remember that when he got up at the end of the meal , his head nearly touched the ceiling , and , as usual , the rising to his feet was undertaken by means of the silent swivel-mechanism . |
| 15 | He 'd warn Lee when he got up to the wood . |
| 16 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
| 17 | He felt stiff when he got up from the chair and turned out the light and groped his way through the still open doorway to the bed , shedding his clothes on to the floor . |
| 18 | ‘ All right , then , ’ said his Dad , putting his hand on Philip 's shoulder as he got up from the table . |
| 19 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 20 | He had knocked over the water jug when he got up from the table . |
| 21 | He got up from the desk , then went to the window wall and stood there . |
| 22 | When he got up in the morning , his ankles felt ricketty . |
| 23 | He and Anne had a bathroom opening out of their bedroom but Adam , when he got up in the night , usually went to the other one that was on the far side of the landing . |
| 24 | ‘ Mum said he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet . |
| 25 | ‘ He slept like a log and when he got up in the morning and saw the car had gone he was very upset , ’ said a source . |
| 26 | He straightened up from the binnacle and jabbed a finger painfully into my chest . |
| 27 | I stole a look at Conchis as he gazed up at the picture ; he had , by no other logic than that of cultural snobbery , gained a whole new dimension of respectability for me , and I began to feel much less sure of his eccentricity and his phoniness , of my own superiority in the matter of what life was really about . |
| 28 | He gazed up at the sky that was cloudless and dry — and a mountain that had a big peak . |
| 29 | He gazed up in the air and appeared to be musing to the ceiling . |
| 30 | He looks up at the class . |