Example sentences of "had [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 2 | When they had all left and her father , the grave-digger , had filled up the grave , Nigel would be alone . |
| 3 | Always till now that had filled up the moment |
| 4 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 5 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 6 | They were so poor that they had to grind up the bark of trees to make flour for their bread . |
| 7 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 8 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 9 | Each of the hunt masters had signed their portion of the map , and each hunt had sent a brush — even those that had broken up no fox while she was in their country . |
| 10 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 11 | And now , sitting legs stretched , on a chair too low comfortably to accommodate his six feet two inches , eyes fixed on that single taper , unflickering in the incense-heavy stillness , he could hear again the tone , taut with self-disgust , in which Berowne had explained why he had given up the law : |
| 12 | Doctors said that while his heart was fine , his vascular system had given up the ghost . |
| 13 | Who had given up the ghost . |
| 14 | That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed , limp and helpless as a rag doll . |
| 15 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 16 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 17 | By then many women in social class I ( 45 per cent ) had given up the pill , compared to 39 per cent in class II and 28 per cent of the others . |
| 18 | Seamen felt themselves constantly under attack from the press , particularly that presided over by Lord Northcliffe , who had given up the conscription campaign , but continued to blacken the character of merchant sailors and firemen , while in other circles they were being lauded for their valour by no less a person than Admiral Sir John Jellicoe himself . |
| 19 | Lee Kuan Yew 's son Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh 's post as PAP first assistant secretary-general and remained a Deputy Prime Minister ; however , he had given up the Trade and Industry portfolio in mid-November after announcing that he was undergoing treatment for cancer . |
| 20 | By the beginning of the 1960s the government had given up the attempt to encourage employers to take special note of the needs of older workers . |
| 21 | And it was very dark , but I had to go up every night , and I did n't like going up in the dark . ’ |
| 22 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 23 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 24 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 25 | We had to write up the parrot sketch in English and this French translated in French for us . |
| 26 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 27 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 28 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 29 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 30 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |