Example sentences of "when he [verb] [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a relief as his coughing at night had irritated us , and it meant that Alex could stop hitting him with a broom handle when he woke us up . |
| 2 | And he says , when he gets it up to sixty mile an hour on t' motorway it 's still vibrating . |
| 3 | That was a good bit when he fucked her up the arse . |
| 4 | He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound . |
| 5 | His voice did n't sound at all unfriendly though , not like that tone he uses when he catches me up on the table eating the butter . |
| 6 | Party Politics , known as an equine giant in racing circles because of his massive size , was cruising when he took it up four fences from home , and winning jockey Carl Llewellyn later admitted that his chief concern at that stage had been striking the front too early . |
| 7 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 8 | She was relieved , for the sake of the parish , when he rang her up in 1940 to say that he was leaving . |
| 9 | But when he picked himself up he was shivering in the darkness . |
| 10 | Once she fell and when he picked her up , her front tooth was broken . |
| 11 | It was still light when he picked her up , and his appreciative gaze told her that missing her lunch had not been wasted . |
| 12 | When he picked me up and put my head in his mouth , I shouted so loudly that he dropped me . |
| 13 | ‘ He was tiddly when he picked me up . |
| 14 | I felt such a fool when he picked me up like that . |
| 15 | When he pulls himself up or corrects his placing or step he beams on the audience as , for example , when he finishes with his back after a pirouette and hastily turns to face them . |
| 16 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 17 | And then when he gave it up when his wife died , he stopped it then and they changed it into the West Mainland Horse Breeding Society . |
| 18 | ‘ Had a bust-up in the late fifties when he beat her up so badly he was sent to jail . ’ |
| 19 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |
| 20 | We have just caught Raskolnikov saying to himself that the moth seeks the candle-flame , and Porfiry says similar things aloud ; while behind both of them Dostoevsky is telling Katkov that the murderer demands punishment and bends to an inexorable divine and human law when he gives himself up . |