Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The little cavalryman , embodiment of all the ancient martial instincts and panache of the race , had taken up the German gauntlet . |
| 32 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 33 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |
| 34 | Minor planning difficulties had held up the second phase so the Federation has to start with just three finished rooms . |
| 35 | By the time they had splashed up the far bank Nathaniel Sherman was fifty yards away , moving erratically , breasting the grass , preparing to risk a standing shot at two hundred yards . |
| 36 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |