Example sentences of "had [verb] up his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sky had darkened to violet by the time Mortimer had formed up his troops for the march out of town , and a star-speckled dome was overhead when the column of fifty Marines , plus Benny , Ace and Petion marched out of Port-au-Prince at a slight jog . |
| 2 | After Janey went back to Billy , Kevin had patched up his differences with his wife , Enid , but one of the conditions had been that Kevin would sponsor polo instead of show jumping to avoid bumping into Janey on the circuit , and because their daughter , Tracey , would meet a nicer class of young man in polo . |
| 3 | The training officer , who endorsed all this had picked up his standards from his dealing director , who was later to claim of him : " He was like a lost lamb when he started . |
| 4 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 5 | Mrs Bridges maintained : ‘ Mr Newton admitted on Friday that he had made up his end of the story . |
| 6 | He had made up his mind to be morally irresponsible this evening . |
| 7 | The son of a former officer in the Dragoon Guards , Captain Donald Swan , who still trains in Tipperary , Charlie obviously had racing in his blood and after leaving school at 15 he had made up his mind to be a jockey . |
| 8 | He could see from the changing mottle of the secretary 's complexion that Garvey had made up his mind for him . |
| 9 | Pinned suddenly by the man 's dark gaze , Leith was all at once certain that Travis 's cousin had made up his mind in advance that she was more interested in Travis 's financial status than Travis himself . |
| 10 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 11 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 12 | Midani , who also owned two French chateaux , a Cannes hilltop villa and a townhouse in Paris , had built up his collection during the last ten years of his life . |
| 13 | Craig , who joked he had built up his body with steroids , said : ‘ I may be big but I am losing my hair . ’ |
| 14 | John : In 1985 , John had to give up his career as a consulting engineer because he was desperately ill . |
| 15 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 16 | James Menzies had locked up his warehouse for the day and come over in time to be included in the lengthening list . |
| 17 | First of all , DeFries , by this time , had set up his headquarters in New York although David was still headquartered in London . |
| 18 | On coming ashore Charles Newman had set up his headquarters near the bridge ( 'G' ) across the lock leading from the Entrance . |
| 19 | Yet by March the next year , Brian Courtenay had set up his mistress in the luxury love nest that would help to empty the family coffers . |
| 20 | . ’ Gibbon had followed up his opposition to the girl by ‘ acts of personal hostility to me ’ . |
| 21 | His bride was called Anne Nickerson , the daughter of an Essex landowner whose reluctant consent to an army marriage had turned to whole-hearted approval when Peter d'Alembord had put up his captaincy for sale . |
| 22 | He had held up his head in the most exalted company . |
| 23 | He explained his interest in moral , political , and legal issues as that of ‘ an economist who discovered that if he was to draw from his technical knowledge conclusions relevant to the public issues of our time , he had to make up his mind on many questions to which economics did not supply an answer ’ . |
| 24 | He had clipped up his shirtsleeves with steel bracelets above the elbow and was swathed in a coarse apron which had once been white and which covered him from the knot of his tie to his ankles . |