Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said . |
| 2 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 3 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 4 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 5 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 6 | Researchers could n't be sure radon was such a danger until they 'd built up a complete picture . |
| 7 | And already , at twenty-four , he 'd built up a formidable business , successfully fulfilling contracts all over the world . |
| 8 | Through nominees he 'd bought up a major holding in the company . |
| 9 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 10 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 11 | I had no previous experience of building anything like this , but by studying the old sheds and some leaflets from a company that made stables , I 'd knocked up a working drawing . |