Example sentences of "had [verb] up [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 6 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 7 | ‘ He was livid , as though I had stirred up the printers against him and come to say ‘ I told you so ’ once they 'd walked out . ’ |
| 8 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |
| 9 | Labour chiefs branded the rush of openness too late after the Government had hushed up the payments for 18 months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The war just ended had shown up the divisions between the pro-French and the pro-English factions within Bordeaux . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The DHAC had softened up the Unionists by publicising the housing situation in Derry and causing embarrassment for the Stormont government , but it was the Nationalists , as elected representatives , who were able to press home the advantage and force the concessions . |
| 14 | How many years since he had whipped up the spirits for any party ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Molly had buttoned up the braces on Jacqueline 's trousers and found her youngest child a biscuit when she heard the screams . |