Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 3 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 4 | In a press conference on Aug. 1 Danforth stated that he " had given up on the administration " but that he intended to introduce his compromise bill when Congress reconvened from its summer recess . |
| 5 | That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans . |
| 6 | And , as the big metal bird had lifted up into the sky , two heavy hands had taken her by the shoulders . |
| 7 | The collar-points of his white shirt had rolled up in the heat . |
| 8 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 9 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 10 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 11 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 12 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 13 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 14 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 15 | According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " . |
| 16 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 17 | Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS . |
| 18 | Not till they had come up onto the green did he realise that the figure in waterproofs pulling the doctor 's trolley was Chris . |
| 19 | I got there — the message had come up via the landlady . |
| 20 | Hence , by the 1920s and 1930s , only a tiny minority of Burmese politicians had come up via the ladder of education and training in Britain , by which Gandhi , Jinnah and Nehru had risen . |
| 21 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 22 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 23 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 24 | Louis had come up from the saloon . |
| 25 | Something sudden had come up concerning the family fortunes and he had to consult his solicitors : it was the one excuse that his seniors being closer to retirement and thus deeply concerned with land values and capital transfer taxes accepted with sympathy . |
| 26 | We were ready , even to the pitcher of orange juice , bucket of champagne and iced flask of vodka that waited on a table Ellen had carried up to the cockpit . |
| 27 | A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way . |
| 28 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 29 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 30 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |