Example sentences of "had [verb] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorton had jumped up on the gazebo . |
| 2 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 4 | School had broken up on the Thursday of that week , and on Friday evening Cassie saw Ben at his car , packing his holiday luggage in the boot . |
| 5 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 6 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 7 | In a press conference on Aug. 1 Danforth stated that he " had given up on the administration " but that he intended to introduce his compromise bill when Congress reconvened from its summer recess . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 9 | That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans . |
| 10 | The train was hauled by BR Standard 75069 , and was formed of five goods brakevans comprising one LMS , one SR , one GWR ‘ Toad ’ and two BR Types of van which give ample space for the party of 43 that were carried , the majority of whom had travelled up from the Bath-Bristol area by coach . |
| 11 | And , as the big metal bird had lifted up into the sky , two heavy hands had taken her by the shoulders . |
| 12 | The collar-points of his white shirt had rolled up in the heat . |
| 13 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 14 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 15 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 16 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 17 | Robertson had caught up with the words and passed the manuscript , still wet , to the laird . |
| 18 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 19 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 20 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 21 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 22 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 23 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 24 | Ankrah , commanding the Ghana army , was retired he was due for retirement anyway ( he had come up through the ranks and served in Burma ) . |
| 25 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 26 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 27 | According to his brother in law , Serrano Suñer , Franco appointed José Luis Arrese as Minister Secretary-General of the Party in 1940 because Arrese had come up with the idea of " relieving the hunger problem with dolphin sandwiches " . |
| 28 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 29 | Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS . |
| 30 | At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster . |