Sentence examples for and checks up from inspiring English sources

More than eight in 10 want to see an increase in border controls and checks, up 11 points over the past month.

She jumps in her car and checks up on the promises, driving for hours across the city, then blogs about the results on her kitchen table while her dogs yap around her.

He speaks frequently — and often on his trademark issue, overhauling the nation's health care system — to President Obama Mr. Bidenn; the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel; and checks up on the Senate "chatter" with lawmakers.

Howard M. Lorber, a businessman who has been flying a helicopter between the Hamptons and the city for a decade, still savors the thrill of the ride: when he flies along the South Shore of Long Island, he rides by Coney Island and checks up on one of his businesses, Nathan's Famous; when he travels by the North Shore, he gazes at the sprawling estates dotting the Gold Coast.

A senior solicitor strolls through the office on her way home and checks up on the night's progress.

Suspicious, the fellow-guest retired to the library and checked up.

Superficially, checking in and checking up seem quite similar, but micromanagers make four kinds of mistakes.

"I'm going to call him up and check up on him.

(Be cheerful and helpful, he instructed -- and checked up on the operators by dialing in anonymously).

"We did do due diligence and checked up on all his references," he said of Galea.

Shamin and her daughters would bring food they had cooked and check up on her on a daily basis.