Example sentences of "had [verb] up the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 2 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 3 | He had saved up the site for the right feeling . |
| 4 | Labour chiefs branded the rush of openness too late after the Government had hushed up the payments for 18 months . |
| 5 | He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux . |
| 6 | CCTV had to weigh up the demands for the series to be repeated with the views expressed by some Party members that ‘ Heshang ’ was subversive and dangerous . |
| 7 | Just before his departure , Ellis had set up the position for prop Harmon 's try . |
| 8 | How many years since he had whipped up the spirits for any party ? |
| 9 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 10 | By July 6 Mladenov 's own Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) had taken up the call for his resignation with an editorial in the party newspaper Duma . |
| 11 | They , Castle Houses , had put up the prize for a steeplechase and had also taken over a prestigious handicap hurdle race already in the programme for Saturday . |