Example sentences of "had [verb] up [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it turned out that Mrs A had gathered up the keys , the , arrest would be unlawful . |
| 2 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 3 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 4 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 5 | I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ? |
| 6 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 7 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 8 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 9 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 10 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 11 | The men had picked up the sacks and shaken them out . |
| 12 | A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter . |
| 13 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 14 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 15 | Dolly had stirred up a hornets ' nest when she pinched the wallet , and he had n't made it any better by steaming the letter open . |
| 16 | The Party had to be cleansed of those who had stirred up the students and caused trouble . |
| 17 | ‘ He was livid , as though I had stirred up the printers against him and come to say ‘ I told you so ’ once they 'd walked out . ’ |
| 18 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |
| 19 | Leopold 's own career progressed slowly and unadventurously : by 1758 he had risen up the ranks to become second violin , and also court and chamber composer , and five years later he became deputy kapellmeister ( the German term for the musician in charge of a musical establishment ) . |
| 20 | Labour chiefs branded the rush of openness too late after the Government had hushed up the payments for 18 months . |
| 21 | He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux . |
| 22 | The war just ended had shown up the divisions between the pro-French and the pro-English factions within Bordeaux . |
| 23 | By 1668 the Company had collapsed ; when its successor , the Royal Africa Company , was launched in 1672 it had to tidy up the debts outstanding as well as restore the trade in gold and slaves from West Africa . |
| 24 | They were people with connections , interests , obligations and they had to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages and to take other people and other possible futures into account . |
| 25 | CCTV had to weigh up the demands for the series to be repeated with the views expressed by some Party members that ‘ Heshang ’ was subversive and dangerous . |
| 26 | In a memorandum written in July 1982 , and marked ‘ Secret ’ , one of the leading CEGB strategists , Derek Davis , had summed up the pros and cons of the Hinkley site . |
| 27 | The DHAC had softened up the Unionists by publicising the housing situation in Derry and causing embarrassment for the Stormont government , but it was the Nationalists , as elected representatives , who were able to press home the advantage and force the concessions . |
| 28 | Wakefield Council had set up an Adaptations and Disability Unit , bringing together staff from social services , environmental health and housing departments . |
| 29 | By the time they had eaten up the crumbs they had forgotten the way out and in their hunger ate the insulation from the wiring . |
| 30 | He even had to turn up the sleeves . |