Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had filled up her own glass , but Kate became painfully aware that she was nervous as she sat opposite her daughter . |
| 2 | She had given up her hard-earned scholarship to make a home for them — she could n't do both ! |
| 3 | The roses had given up their annual struggle to keep things cheerful and now hemmed in Mr Rowse 's path with thorns . |
| 4 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 5 | His lore says that Abraham Stoker , a graduate of Trinity College , Dublin , had given faithful service as general amanuensis to Sir Henry Irving , the fearsome Victorian actor-manager — for whom Stoker had given up his civil service career . |
| 6 | Stair , who usually ignored Neil since his brother had given up his privileged life and become an East End doctor , occasionally felt that he had some sort of duty to him ; he was , after all , his heir . |
| 7 | He had given up his voluntary work at St Dunstan 's in November claiming that it was ‘ too fatiguin' ’ for him to carry on with . |
| 8 | In October 1987 , at the agency 's request , Coleman had looked up his best man , Michael Franks , a.k.a . |
| 9 | But Laura had made up her own mind as to her next move . |
| 10 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 11 | Like Michael he had started out as a ‘ breaker ’ — a heavy — until he had built up his own business . |
| 12 | The master tactician in the whole area was Billy Butlin , who a year before the Rector of Stiffkey 's aborted lecture had opened up his first holiday camp , in Skegness . |
| 13 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 14 | It transpired that each woman had packed up her own cake to bring to the fête . |
| 15 | She had summed up his immediate task in a nutshell . |
| 16 | They had set up their own operative . |
| 17 | While Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century-Fox had set up their own production companies to produce British pictures , other US distributors relied on local suppliers . |
| 18 | It seemed especially desperate at a charter fair in my home town as we watched a local housewife who had set up her fortune-telling tent . |
| 19 | The Home Office had set up its own Research Unit in 1957 , in addition to supporting criminological research in the universities and elsewhere . |
| 20 | The ELN leadership confirmed on Sept. 20 that a Socialist Renewal Movement ( CRS ) within the ELN had set up its own organization . |
| 21 | By the early 1980s , he had set up his own company , Albrite . |
| 22 | Twelve years back that contract had expired and he had set up his own Company , but that venture had failed after only three years . |
| 23 | There , a former customer of the plaintiffs gave evidence that he had met the defendant in the street and mentioned to him that he had heard he had set up his own business and wanted the defendant to cut him a suit . |
| 24 | Lancashire had run up their best total , 264 for three , to give the Tykes a mountain to climb . |
| 25 | If so , it had been one more error of judgment to add to the bleak arithmetic of failure since he had taken up his new job . |
| 26 | At the start of the war he had taken up his old rank of captain and was now a major in the King 's African Rifles . |