Example sentences of "had [verb] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 2 | If the liquid was meant to flow into the chamber from some high point on the hillside and then out to the tank supplying the house , it had given up in the hot weather and was no longer doing so . |
| 3 | The collar-points of his white shirt had rolled up in the heat . |
| 4 | She had curled up in the deep old window seat , the velvet coverlet from the bed wrapped about her for warmth , and had drifted in and out of an uneasy sleep . |
| 5 | Innes McInnes was obviously a soup-meat-cheese man from way back , but had come up in the world . |
| 6 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 7 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 8 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 9 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 10 | This time it was fish and chips which Mrs Wormwood had picked up in the fish and chip shop on her way home from bingo . |
| 11 | He relished hearing the stories that Orton told of masturbatory sessions in public lavatories , of men he had picked up in the street , of having sex in shop doorways , of the sizes of his acquaintances ' organs and of his experiences with venereal disease . |
| 12 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 13 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 14 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 15 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 16 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 17 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 18 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 19 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 20 | Patrick had grown up in the Dublin that his mother now worked so hard to forget . |
| 21 | Donald Wilson was very much of the BBC 's ‘ old school ’ which had grown up in the wake of Lord Reith . |
| 22 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
| 23 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 24 | Thomas had grown up in the neighborhood of the machine and one day he had bought it , bringing it to England by boat and vaguely intending to explore the possibility of supplying a spring though he also liked it well as it still was . |
| 25 | He respected Marshal Tolonen greatly ; had grown up in the shadow of the old man . |
| 26 | These somewhat standard indictments nevertheless came from a scholar who had grown up in the York school under Archbishop Ecgberht and gained maturity in the household of Archbishop Aethelberht as master of the school until he joined the court of Charlemagne in the early 780s . |
| 27 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 28 | Essentially , there had grown up in the 1930s a system of subsidies which enabled milk to be bought cheaply by local education authorities for distribution ( free or at minimal cost ) to children . |
| 29 | Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it . |
| 30 | The first part of an explanation would be the extent of belief in Hitler which had built up in the years before 1940 . |