Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 2 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |
| 3 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 4 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 5 | The bed was untidy , as though she had merely pulled up the covers . |
| 6 | Carrie had already gathered up the baby 's toiletries in her arms and she left the room without answering him . |
| 7 | Rory had driven up and slipped into her bed like lightning , because he had already cooked up the plan to try and entice Jessica Roberts to go with him to Galway , and needed to sweeten Rosie for another evening 's absence . |
| 8 | A young Italian nobleman had already summed up the dismay felt by liberal Catholics in 1906 when he wrote , in a famous letter , ‘ Since the death of Pope Leo the Roman Curia has assumed towards the world of thought a reactionary attitude reminiscent of the days of Pius IX , when the Church was at war with everything and everybody . ’ |
| 9 | Nils had already opened up the engine compartment , which was directly below the deckhouse , and he and Iain were sitting on the floor with their legs dangling over the big diesel , going through a list of requirements he had produced . |
| 10 | His brother Donald had already opened up the route to South Africa with his famous Castle Line and occasionally vessels were transferred to supplement the respective fleets . |
| 11 | Daniel had meanwhile built up the works , from a large smelter in three storeys to coal-sheds , workshops , a stamp mill , and housing in Brigham , almost a mile east of Keswick on the river Greta . |
| 12 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 13 | I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack . |
| 14 | She was grateful that Sylvie had not taken up the Princesse 's invitation to join them for the holidays and , a little guiltily , that Leo had n't either . |
| 15 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 16 | Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words . |
| 17 | And she just knew that , if she had not brought up the subject of Tony , he would have invited her to join him in his walk along the shore . |
| 18 | It was also evident that they had not weighed up the consequences . |
| 19 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 20 | The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development . |
| 21 | I could n't bring myself to believe it , and after I had visited Cooper in Maidstone Prison and McMahon in Long Lartin Prison and spoken to their two solicitors , Gareth Peirce for Cooper and Wendy Mantle for McMahon , as well as to Tom Sargant , the secretary of JUSTICE , who had also taken up the case , I was convinced that they were as innocent of the Luton murder as I was . |
| 22 | Stevie , sensitive man that he was , had also picked up the atmosphere , Chris 's unusual silence and the way they avoided looking at each other . |
| 23 | But she felt curiously light-headed , detached , as if she 'd been pushed too far , and her brain had temporarily given up the struggle to cope with this Alice in Wonderland situation . |
| 24 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 25 | This was despite the fact that Churchill , amazingly for a new and over-rewarded recruit to the Conservative Party who twelve years before had nearly broken up the Asquith Cabinet with his demand for a larger navy , began his Chancellorship by presenting an importunate demand to the Admiralty ministers ( who were Baldwin 's closest friends in the Government — Davidson was the junior minister ) for a slashing of the cruiser replacement programme . |
| 26 | But , of course , Dad had had all sorts of minor affairs and that had n't broken up the marriage . |
| 27 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd put the new tyre on , but I had n't tightened up the wheel . ’ |
| 29 | However , when they had used HP , they had often got into trouble over it , usually because they had n't kept up the payments . |
| 30 | She was glad now that she had n't put up the lights . |