Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
| 2 | Then more seriously , after he had crumpled up the paper sandwich bag and put it into the waste bin , he said , ‘ You 'll find , Kit — it 's Christian names , eh , Kit and Alec ? — that the inhabitants of Koraloona are the kindest people on earth . |
| 3 | And now , sitting legs stretched , on a chair too low comfortably to accommodate his six feet two inches , eyes fixed on that single taper , unflickering in the incense-heavy stillness , he could hear again the tone , taut with self-disgust , in which Berowne had explained why he had given up the law : |
| 4 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 5 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 6 | Lee Kuan Yew 's son Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh 's post as PAP first assistant secretary-general and remained a Deputy Prime Minister ; however , he had given up the Trade and Industry portfolio in mid-November after announcing that he was undergoing treatment for cancer . |
| 7 | He had saved up the site for the right feeling . |
| 8 | Perhaps — no , not perhaps , but because McAllister , with all her youthful ebullience and charm , was in his house , she had revived something in him which he did not want to feel and he had called up the demon to assuage it — no , to kill it . |
| 9 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 10 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 11 | But a little nagging voice at the back of her mind kept reminding her of the way he had blown up the taxi rank after Anthony died . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | In the spring , they had had a vase of bluebells in the kitchen ; he had run up the stem of one full , blue flower and it had barely bent under his weight . |
| 14 | When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything . |
| 15 | The government had already been damaged when on July 12 a judge ruled that the Army Commander-in-Chief and former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra could face court martial on charges that he had covered up the murder of a 16-year-old youth by his bodyguards in October 1990 . |
| 16 | The N.C.O. answered it and when he had hung up the receiver it rang again . |
| 17 | He had rigged up a primus stove , and a coffee-pot was already in position . |
| 18 | He had rigged up a sort of tent , I saw now , draping his jacket over the open door , a shirt over her legs . |
| 19 | He had scoured up the ladder at the back and now lay flat on the roof . |
| 20 | He had built up a reputation as an idle scamp but now he was transformed into a model of industry , delivering papers in the mornings , digging people 's gardens , helping to drive the beasts at the auction mart . |
| 21 | A computer whiz-kid , he had built up an electronics empire that rivalled the best in the world . |
| 22 | He had built up the School into one of the most successful and efficiently run Schools in Irish Methodism . |
| 23 | We were in no position to ensure any security for Pateman … he had built up the District but had perhaps nearly exhausted his pioneering drive . |
| 24 | When they were inside and once he had cleaned up the cut , he said , ‘ I 'm getting a doctor . ’ |
| 25 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 26 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |
| 27 | He had taken up the cello at Gordonstoun , when his housemaster , Bob Whitby , could stand the noise of the bagpipes — his chosen instrument — no longer . |
| 28 | He had taken up the post with the NITB after spending eight years in Glasgow . |
| 29 | Mr Paisley said he had taken up an invitation from Miss Boothroyd to raise his concerns after an unsuccessful request by Upper Bann MP David Trimble for an urgent debate in the Commons yesterday . |
| 30 | In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization . |