Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 2 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 3 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 4 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 5 | The teacher claimed that the boy put the forceps in his hand , but the pupil said Mr Harrison had picked them up from a desk . |
| 6 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 7 | Ward 's payment was agreed with Saunders ‘ a man who had huge authority in that company because he had picked it up by the scruff of the neck and transformed it . ’ |
| 8 | They had to forward it up to the Pentagon . |
| 9 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
| 10 | That she had n't heard of the plan was scarcely surprising , since Belinda had made it up on the spur of the moment . |
| 11 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 12 | The evening before , when the boy was buying a betel-leaf from a shop , the police had hauled him up as a vagabond ; they were responding to the jail authorities ' appeal to book more helpers … . |
| 13 | This was a slow process , for Tom had to keep stopping to explain what the words meant , and several times had to look them up in a dictionary . |
| 14 | The loss of her father had opened her up like a can of something and tipped her out . |
| 15 | He said in a letter to The Times that ministers had to leave it up to the court whether or not the documents should be disclosed . |
| 16 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 17 | Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the windings of the great river ; and on the nearest of them , just within the bar , the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight , hull and funnel and masts , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor ( 5 ) . |
| 18 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 19 | This excellent system of continental escorting and fighting-off the Luftwaffe marked the beginning of the end for the Luftwaffe as we had known it up to the advent of the newly-engined Mustang . |
| 20 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 21 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 22 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 23 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 24 | The timber and the bath and such came across by boat into the bay there , and a fine job they had dragging them up to the house . ’ |
| 25 | Cloud was advancing steadily again over the moon 's face , and its shadow rolled across the mitred stones of the abbots , and covered the dark inward movement of the men who had followed him up from the water . |
| 26 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 27 | We were surprised that the sultan had even noticed our arrival , but the young courier who had taken us up to the guesthouse laughed . |
| 28 | Some exciting advice — relayed by Andrew from a knowing uncle in the City — had jacked it up for a time , before an even bigger hole was left gaping by the failure of that magical investment . |
| 29 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 30 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |