Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [vb pp] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Party had to be cleansed of those who had stirred up the students and caused trouble . |
| 2 | It was the old Therese , the happy , extrovert Therese , the golden girl who had lit up the stage of the Volksoper . |
| 3 | Who had given up the ghost . |
| 4 | Seamen felt themselves constantly under attack from the press , particularly that presided over by Lord Northcliffe , who had given up the conscription campaign , but continued to blacken the character of merchant sailors and firemen , while in other circles they were being lauded for their valour by no less a person than Admiral Sir John Jellicoe himself . |
| 5 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 6 | Well , i it was n't too bad at all , they the tailor 's shop actually , it was er a tailor and his wife , who had built up a business over the years , in Stapleford , and it was very well patronized by Stapleford people . |
| 7 | Eddie Shah , who had built up a group of free weeklies based in Stockport , determined to launch a national daily , Today . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 10 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 11 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 12 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 13 | In this , she was encouraged by Shelley Saxon , a former manager with Honey Perriam , who had set up a consultancy practice and worked from an office in the same building . |
| 14 | In some ways , though , Nick — as he insisted people call him — lived in the shadow of his father Alec , a renowned pacifist who had set up a Chair of Peace Studies at Bradford University on the sensible grounds that everywhere else seemed to study war . |
| 15 | Recently , Iris had taken an interest in a group of young artists who had set up a studio in a converted barn in Lower Benbury . |
| 16 | Yet he it was who had set up a meeting with ‘ Miguelito ’ quite deliberately , knowing that he was going to dupe her into going . |
| 17 | Finally , Tom Johnston , a former Labour minister ( who had set up the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was now its chairman ) , had little interest in matters south of the border , and attended only intermittently . |