Example sentences of "had [verb] up a [noun sg] [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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His skin had picked up a glow from the lilies on the table . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 9 | He had picked up a group of experienced hunter-killers from the Phoenix NoGo , and turned them loose on the remaining sandrats . |
| 10 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 11 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 12 | A final vote showed Tory support remained solid while the LibDems had picked up a handful of votes at Labour 's expense . |
| 13 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 14 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 15 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 16 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 17 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 18 | God , but she had grown up a lot since then . |
| 19 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 20 | He had built up a reputation as an idle scamp but now he was transformed into a model of industry , delivering papers in the mornings , digging people 's gardens , helping to drive the beasts at the auction mart . |
| 21 | Dexter explained that Blufton had left school in Guildford when he was sixteen and had built up a chain of antique shops and pizza parlours . |
| 22 | Eddie Shah , who had built up a group of free weeklies based in Stockport , determined to launch a national daily , Today . |
| 23 | Well , i it was n't too bad at all , they the tailor 's shop actually , it was er a tailor and his wife , who had built up a business over the years , in Stapleford , and it was very well patronized by Stapleford people . |
| 24 | RTD had built up a collection of Tanzanian regional music . |
| 25 | According to Phillip Knightley , Philby had done rather better and was enjoying the comfortable lifestyle of a retired KGB general with his wife Rufa , had built up a library of 12,000 books , saw Western newspapers regularly and was able to maintain contact with his family in the West . |
| 26 | The voice was warm , too , as if it had soaked up a lot of sunshine . |
| 27 | If someone had got up a petition for that bloke who refused to pay his ticket because the heating did n't work , I would have signed it . |
| 28 | The forces of federation and supranationalism were in disarray , and at the time it seemed natural to conclude that the whole momentum of European integration was lurching to a halt , in particular because the EDC debacle had opened up a rift between France and West Germany . |
| 29 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 30 | It was only ten minutes , as she had used up an hour in the swimming-baths . |