Example sentences of "had [adv] be [verb] up for " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
2 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
3 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
4 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
5 | McKoy , the hometown favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
6 | About the year 1737 , were found in St Margaret 's church-yard , Westminster , in a dry gravelly soil , at the depth of about 18 feet , or less , which had not been broken up for above fifty years before , three entire fir coffins ; the two largest clampt together with iron , as boxes sometimes are . |