Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] up [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 2 | The bed was untidy , as though she had merely pulled up the covers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was also evident that they had not weighed up the consequences . |
| 5 | However , when they had used HP , they had often got into trouble over it , usually because they had n't kept up the payments . |
| 6 | She was glad now that she had n't put up the lights . |
| 7 | I discussed my feelings with the woman in question and I slept with her , but I deeply regretted it later on and was sorry that I had n't weighed up the consequences more thoroughly beforehand . |
| 8 | I just wish they had n't boarded up the windows . |
| 9 | With reference to the loss of WF-495 in the Atlantic I can recall some newspaper comment about a fishing boat skipper , whose boat had actually trawled up the remains of one of the crew , returning the body immediately to the deep without much thought for the relatives or friends of the deceased . |
| 10 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 11 | There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case . |