Example sentences of "had [verb] up the [noun] " 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 | If it turned out that Mrs A had gathered up the keys , the , arrest would be unlawful . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 8 | They were so poor that they had to grind up the bark of trees to make flour for their bread . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | Doctors said that while his heart was fine , his vascular system had given up the ghost . |
| 12 | Who had given up the ghost . |
| 13 | That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed , limp and helpless as a rag doll . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 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 | I , I er , o we had to get the ladders we had to go up the ladders did n't we ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ) |
| 30 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |