Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 2 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 3 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 4 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 5 | Some of those problems had already shown up on the print-outs , let alone from the drivers . |
| 6 | It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation . |
| 7 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 8 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 9 | Alyssia smiled back and wondered whether she should pretend that she had somehow ended up at the wrong address . |
| 10 | However , they were very clear that a " gap " had somehow opened up between the favourable tone of established constitutional theory and the horrors of day-to-day political practice . |
| 11 | Police numbers had doubled , two ambulances had somehow squeezed up on the hill , and the drivers and passengers were out of their Glories , milling around in confusion . |
| 12 | In effect this was a period of withdrawal from a rigidly structured police world to a world turned upside down ; where , in a ‘ counter-cultural ’ way , we were to find that the strict terms of reference we had carefully built up over the years no longer seemed to have relevance . |
| 13 | Maidstone had now stepped up to the bar beside Sandison but he still did not look to be at ease . |
| 14 | At the bottom end of the educational scale I remember so very clearly the instances — and there were far too many of them for my peace of mind — where the school had virtually given up in the face of difficulties . |
| 15 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |