Example sentences of "had [verb] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 2 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 3 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 4 | They were so poor that they had to grind up the bark of trees to make flour for their bread . |
| 5 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 6 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 7 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 8 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 9 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 10 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 11 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 12 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 13 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 14 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 15 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 16 | His skin had picked up a glow from the lilies on the table . |
| 17 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 18 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 19 | He had picked up a group of experienced hunter-killers from the Phoenix NoGo , and turned them loose on the remaining sandrats . |
| 20 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 21 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 22 | A final vote showed Tory support remained solid while the LibDems had picked up a handful of votes at Labour 's expense . |
| 23 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 24 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 25 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 26 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 27 | Maxim had picked up the story from friends in the Intelligence Corps . |
| 28 | They had picked up the man at the bottom of the hill . |
| 29 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 30 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |