Example sentences of "[coord] had [vb pp] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter explained that Blufton had left school in Guildford when he was sixteen and had built up a chain of antique shops and pizza parlours . |
| 2 | At Indica he had met Miles and had struck up a friendship with the ever-cordial Jim Haynes , and the early contributors pushed the new magazine beyond an Australian mafia , he emphasizes . |
| 3 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 4 | Mr McWhirter had shuffled in , looking like a morose vagrant , some ten minutes late , and had taken up a position in front of the fire . |
| 5 | After years of study he had qualified in Mining Engineering and had taken up a post as a college lecturer on mining . |
| 6 | The perplexing thing was that Bella , whom he had now nerved himself to telephone every other evening with news of Sam , seemed not to mind the untenable situation particularly and had taken up the flute . |
| 7 | The group had met on Oct. 15 and had drawn up a Report on the Commonwealth in the 1990s — a synthesis of an initial Malaysian document and of a more forceful British-drafted version proposing new Commonwealth policies favouring the promotion of democracy and human rights , and stressing the need for an independent judiciary . |
| 8 | UNIT had been routinely monitoring the signals in the area and had picked up the SOS messages from the passenger aircraft . |
| 9 | He had come from out of town with a fortune , was known to have been a vociferous Bund supporter before the war and had set up a chain of more or less above-board casinos in the districts where gambling was more or less legal . |
| 10 | Spain stood very much where she had done when Philip II came to the throne , except that the Netherlands had broken free and had set up an empire based much more on trade than on overseas settlements . |
| 11 | Saibou had described the police action on Feb. 9 ( which occurred when he was on a visit to Guinea-Bissau ) as " a mistake " , and had set up an inquiry into the incident . |
| 12 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |