Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] up [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the time I was just 22 , I had run up a clothes debt of nearly £4,000 ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He was livid , as though I had stirred up the printers against him and come to say ‘ I told you so ’ once they 'd walked out . ’ |
| 3 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 4 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 5 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 6 | The Party had to be cleansed of those who had stirred up the students and caused trouble . |
| 7 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 8 | I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ? |
| 9 | By the time they had eaten up the crumbs they had forgotten the way out and in their hunger ate the insulation from the wiring . |
| 10 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 11 | They were people with connections , interests , obligations and they had to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages and to take other people and other possible futures into account . |
| 12 | Erm and then of course they had to haul up the floorboards and re re-lay a line for the phone |
| 13 | By 1668 the Company had collapsed ; when its successor , the Royal Africa Company , was launched in 1672 it had to tidy up the debts outstanding as well as restore the trade in gold and slaves from West Africa . |
| 14 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 15 | Leopold 's own career progressed slowly and unadventurously : by 1758 he had risen up the ranks to become second violin , and also court and chamber composer , and five years later he became deputy kapellmeister ( the German term for the musician in charge of a musical establishment ) . |
| 16 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 17 | A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter . |
| 18 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 19 | How many years since he had whipped up the spirits for any party ? |