Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Papa and Mama , informed , were coming over , the lawyers had gathered to draw up the marriage settlement , everything seemed set fair . |
| 2 | Haymarket had intended to set up a computer business with over 20 staff to build its own PCs under the brand Eyecon and sell them through a dealer network . |
| 3 | ITTO had intended to build up a consensus towards achieving full sustainability in tropical forestry by the year 2000 . |
| 4 | ‘ Wow , I 'm glad you called , man , ’ said Hopper who thought his friend had telephoned to patch up a quarrel they 'd had before Fonda left for Canada . |
| 5 | In April 1945 , Truman 's government played host to representatives from 50 countries at San Francisco who had met to draw up the Charter for the United Nations . |
| 6 | The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured . |
| 7 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 8 | Also in January I reported that the Queen had decided to give up the bottle . |
| 9 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 10 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 11 | The artillery officer wondered why no one had thought to blow up the bridge which crossed the River Sambre in the centre of the town , but he supposed there must be fords close to Charleroi which would have made the destruction of the fine stone bridge into a futile and even petulant gesture . |
| 12 | ‘ So Miss Morgan would have got the lion 's share of the other two hundred thousand even if she had agreed to break up the trust ? |
| 13 | The Church of Scotland had agreed to make up a proportion of the shortfall equal to the proportion of its members present . |
| 14 | Sophie was always reckless ; and Sam had wanted to blow up a train . |
| 15 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |
| 17 | Robert had tried to open up the subject of Hasan several times , but Mr Malik seemed far less concerned about him than he had been . |
| 18 | He had planned to hold up the cash desk of an Oxford Street store . |
| 19 | Aung San had planned to set up a government at Moulmein , but was put off . |
| 20 | The commission had begun to draw up an inventory of assets . |
| 21 | The rising tide had begun to fill up the channel . |
| 22 | Already Quentin had begun to tidy up the garden for the Easter Fete . |
| 23 | But once one lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with meat rather than grass , the process was self-reinforcing . |
| 24 | And once the other lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with grass rather than meat , that process was self-reinforcing in the other direction . |
| 25 | Immediately he joined the group of hard , inflexible German communists the Soviet Union had sent to set up a puppet government in the sector of Germany they occupied . |
| 26 | Where the settlor is himself insolvent , the trust is invalid , and creditors can execute against all the settlor 's property including that over which he had purported to set up a trust . |
| 27 | After the war , when Helmut had something to do with a factory in Brazil , where he and Father had managed to set up a colony of displaced persons , Father supplied all the machine tools and worked closely with Helmut on the project . |