Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |