Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 2 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 3 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 4 | However the Earl John had duly turned up at Edinburgh , with one hundred and fifty men and the information that the enemy had passed well to the east of Doune . |
| 5 | Her name had rarely cropped up after that . |
| 6 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 7 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 8 | Yet they had all come up with very little . |
| 9 | And then back home with Ted and Frieda both asleep and Jo gone , it had all burst up in tears Maggie had squashed down with cigarettes . |
| 10 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 11 | In the first week of the forty-day share sale period , the unions only invested £871,000 , and two weeks before the closing date the total had only crept up to £927,500 . |
| 12 | He had better catch up on Elinor 's latest batch of instructions . |
| 13 | ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs . |
| 14 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 15 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 16 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 17 | There was a burst of male laughter from the bar , which had suddenly filled up with men wearing MCC ties ; the day 's play at Lord 's would have ended just about twenty minutes ago . |
| 18 | As they passed close to the couple at table both the women recoiled as if the Devil himself had suddenly sprung up between them . |
| 19 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 20 | When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays . |
| 21 | Some businesses vowed they would be back today and a number of ‘ business as usual ’ signs had already gone up around shop windows . |
| 22 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
| 23 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 24 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 25 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 26 | In December 1922 he resigned graciously to return to his large goods store which had already started up in June . |
| 27 | By this time , Sinead had already linked up with Farrelly in Dublin |
| 28 | Some of those problems had already shown up on the print-outs , let alone from the drivers . |
| 29 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 30 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |