Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 2 | His lore says that Abraham Stoker , a graduate of Trinity College , Dublin , had given faithful service as general amanuensis to Sir Henry Irving , the fearsome Victorian actor-manager — for whom Stoker had given up his civil service career . |
| 3 | Stair , who usually ignored Neil since his brother had given up his privileged life and become an East End doctor , occasionally felt that he had some sort of duty to him ; he was , after all , his heir . |
| 4 | He had given up his voluntary work at St Dunstan 's in November claiming that it was ‘ too fatiguin' ’ for him to carry on with . |
| 5 | In October 1987 , at the agency 's request , Coleman had looked up his best man , Michael Franks , a.k.a . |
| 6 | Like Michael he had started out as a ‘ breaker ’ — a heavy — until he had built up his own business . |
| 7 | The master tactician in the whole area was Billy Butlin , who a year before the Rector of Stiffkey 's aborted lecture had opened up his first holiday camp , in Skegness . |
| 8 | She had summed up his immediate task in a nutshell . |
| 9 | By the early 1980s , he had set up his own company , Albrite . |
| 10 | Twelve years back that contract had expired and he had set up his own Company , but that venture had failed after only three years . |
| 11 | There , a former customer of the plaintiffs gave evidence that he had met the defendant in the street and mentioned to him that he had heard he had set up his own business and wanted the defendant to cut him a suit . |
| 12 | If so , it had been one more error of judgment to add to the bleak arithmetic of failure since he had taken up his new job . |
| 13 | At the start of the war he had taken up his old rank of captain and was now a major in the King 's African Rifles . |