Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 2 | Robertson had caught up with the words and passed the manuscript , still wet , to the laird . |
| 3 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 4 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 5 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 6 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |
| 7 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 8 | By five-thirty , I had met up with the lads and , content at seventeen miles , stooped in the twilight to hammer home the twenty-eight pegs . |
| 9 | Fazal said that you had met up with the men and had started work . |
| 10 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 11 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
| 12 | The duchess , recalling her own upbringing amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters , recognized this , and was gratified by the devotion and closeness that had grown up between the girls . |
| 13 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 14 | The bitch had grown up alongside the children , and was all the more charming for it , but bureaucracy had spoken . |
| 15 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 16 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 17 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 18 | The practice of fasting had grown up amongst the Pharisees as a sign of their superiority . |
| 19 | The catalogue of hurts which had built up over the years was considerable . |
| 20 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |
| 21 | He dealt quickly with the Romanian trip until that day when they had driven up into the mountains to visit Putna . |
| 22 | Exactly opposite Grace a heap of crates which had driven up through the bends and reaches , twenty miles from Gravesend , was at rest in the slack water , enchanted apparently , not moving an inch one way or the other . |
| 23 | They polished off most of the sausages , which they seemed greatly to enjoy , and Bith of the Bog-Hat and Flaherty shared a firkin of the giants ' ale , which Balor had brought up from the cellars . |
| 24 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 25 | Bodie had cut up through the rows of parked cars , swinging up onto the half ramp , and pumping two shots into the van 's front tyre . |
| 26 | Conversation had started up among the customers in the tavern again , although two had left while the company had been talking amongst themselves . |
| 27 | He was seated at the back of the court , initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets , but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her . |
| 28 | The Fontanellatesi , like all Italians , felt happy ; happy that they had stood up to the Fascists , and happy that they had helped the escaped prisoners . |
| 29 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 30 | Great thicknesses of pumice and ash had piled up on the slopes of Vesuvius above Herculaneum , and this loose material very rapidly became saturated by torrential rainstorms which may have been triggered by the eruption cloud itself : the dust particles acting as nuclei on which water vapour could condense to form droplets . |