Example sentences of "had [verb] up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | First , we had to set up a structure so we could record all the non-conformances and make sure corrective action was taken . |
| 32 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 33 | So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job . |
| 34 | His father had built up a hotel and property business in Uganda . |
| 35 | She had built up a reputation as ‘ the Iron Lady ’ with some stern condemnations of Soviet Communism and its imperialist designs , before she became Prime Minister . |
| 36 | He had built up a reputation as an idle scamp but now he was transformed into a model of industry , delivering papers in the mornings , digging people 's gardens , helping to drive the beasts at the auction mart . |
| 37 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 38 | Hoskyns had built up a computer company and been active in the Centre for policy Studies before joining Mrs Thatcher . |
| 39 | Dexter explained that Blufton had left school in Guildford when he was sixteen and had built up a chain of antique shops and pizza parlours . |
| 40 | Eddie Shah , who had built up a group of free weeklies based in Stockport , determined to launch a national daily , Today . |
| 41 | Well , i it was n't too bad at all , they the tailor 's shop actually , it was er a tailor and his wife , who had built up a business over the years , in Stapleford , and it was very well patronized by Stapleford people . |
| 42 | RTD had built up a collection of Tanzanian regional music . |
| 43 | According to Phillip Knightley , Philby had done rather better and was enjoying the comfortable lifestyle of a retired KGB general with his wife Rufa , had built up a library of 12,000 books , saw Western newspapers regularly and was able to maintain contact with his family in the West . |
| 44 | The voice was warm , too , as if it had soaked up a lot of sunshine . |
| 45 | In the confusion of the moment she agreed and led the way upstairs , wishing she had dreamed up a reason to turn him away . |
| 46 | If someone had got up a petition for that bloke who refused to pay his ticket because the heating did n't work , I would have signed it . |
| 47 | But the preacherman had opened up a crack , and got into her greymass . |
| 48 | Discovery of the micro-organic causes of disease and the mode of their transmission had opened up a domain which ‘ to the minds of our immediate ancestors seemed almost outside of the knowable ’ . |
| 49 | The forces of federation and supranationalism were in disarray , and at the time it seemed natural to conclude that the whole momentum of European integration was lurching to a halt , in particular because the EDC debacle had opened up a rift between France and West Germany . |
| 50 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 51 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 52 | Biff had drawn up a stool nearby and was drinking from a hip flask enjoying the spectacle . |
| 53 | Later , the spectra of other stars were examined , and before the end of the last century astronomers at Harvard College Observatory in the United States had drawn up a system of classification which is still used . |
| 54 | Once the working party had drawn up a schedule of accommodation , illustrated above , it then fell to medical and nursing officers within SHHD , and CSABD , together with colleagues from SDD Building Directorate to work this schedule up into a detailed design guidance . |
| 55 | SAVE , working with the Jubilee Hall campaign , had drawn up a scheme for alternative use , which involved building on the adjacent empty site . |
| 56 | Widespread rumours that Llosa had drawn up a withdrawal statement , an eventuality not catered for by the Constitution , were ended on April 16 when he confirmed his candidacy in the second round . |
| 57 | The group had met on Oct. 15 and had drawn up a Report on the Commonwealth in the 1990s — a synthesis of an initial Malaysian document and of a more forceful British-drafted version proposing new Commonwealth policies favouring the promotion of democracy and human rights , and stressing the need for an independent judiciary . |
| 58 | They had drawn up a memorandum agreeing to a National Government led by MacDonald ; it would dedicate itself to economies of 70 million , including a cut of ten per cent in the dole . |
| 59 | He had rigged up a primus stove , and a coffee-pot was already in position . |
| 60 | He had rigged up a sort of tent , I saw now , draping his jacket over the open door , a shirt over her legs . |