Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerard confined himself to documentaries and it was while making a 90-minute update on South Africa , Back On The Frontier , for ITV in 1986 , that he became fired up to press ahead again single-mindedly with the feature . |
| 2 | Carlos Abadia , leader of the broad-based opposition movement National Civic Crusade ( NCC ) , claimed that it was well known that Ford wished to stand for the presidency in 1994 and that he wished to give up his ministerial post " to reduce the political pressure on him " . |
| 3 | Why did he have to be so careless that he 'd ended up in prison ? |
| 4 | Fergus , used to the occasional cigar with his brandy now that he 'd given up his pipe , pronounced the smoke quite cool , and objected more to the sweet taste of the Old Holborn than to the scent of resin . |
| 5 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 6 | ( And as Lucy was shuffling tensely and waiting for someone to respond , Joe Lucas was in his hotel room and trying to prise the cap off a fresh bottle of painkillers that he 'd picked up , along with some disposable razors and a few other essentials , from a late-opening pharmacy on Piccadilly . |
| 7 | A wild idea occurred to him — why did n't he just get his spare shirts and the few pieces that he 'd picked up while he 'd been staying here , throw them all into a bag , and jump on a train or a bus to present himself on their doorstep ? |
| 8 | He realised that he 'd opened up a can of worms . |
| 9 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 10 | Tumbleweed inquired , eager to get things moving now that he had made up his mind . |
| 11 | Mrs Bridges maintained : ‘ Mr Newton admitted on Friday that he had made up his end of the story . |
| 12 | He had simply hesitated to take the plunge and stake on a worthwhile weekend with her , and it was pure chance that he had made up his mind just after he had learned her name . |
| 13 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 14 | On the other hand , Burton stoutly denied that he had broken up nine marriages : why , he did not even know three of the couples aforementioned . |
| 15 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |
| 16 | At first I was doubtful about taking him , for he did not look strong ; but the Sandfords assured us that he had stood up to several long treks with them , invariably producing good meals even under the most unfavourable conditions , that he never interfered with other people , and was always ready to lend a hand at any job . |
| 17 | Marcus told himself that he had muddled up some bears , examined his own dream , concluded it told him nothing he did n't know , and decided not to report it to Mr Rose . |
| 18 | Despite Hekmatyar 's public avowal that his war was with the Uzbek militia and not with other mujaheddin groups , analysts were agreed that he had stepped up the military pressure against the government to prevent Rabbani from consolidating his position and marginalizing the Hezb-i-Islami . |
| 19 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 20 | Thomas 's house , which he could barely keep up , was run mostly on the income from a small chain of modern toy shops that he had built up for his wife over the years . |
| 21 | He fought his own despairs and his own bitternesses , and he had believed that he had built up an inner tranquillity and a strength , so that he was armoured against the lure of any woman . |
| 22 | In a brief half-mile the whole dream that he had built up had dissolved . |
| 23 | Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ? |
| 24 | The government had already been damaged when on July 12 a judge ruled that the Army Commander-in-Chief and former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra could face court martial on charges that he had covered up the murder of a 16-year-old youth by his bodyguards in October 1990 . |
| 25 | Stirling said that he had to fly up to Beirut where he met a very senior French general , who promptly said ‘ Non ’ . |
| 26 | Daum later explained his Hanover confession , saying that he was not a doctor and that he had mixed up one or two things . |
| 27 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 28 | He also told Miss Slater , then 25 , that he had set up an electrical circuit to the box and if she moved she would be electrocuted . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , in February 1992 , then UK Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley announced that he had set up a steering group of leading businessmen to consider a prestigious new National Quality Award for the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem . |