Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day she had plucked up enough courage to look through the doorway , and had almost choked on the clouds of swirling dust . |
| 2 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 4 | Roland had given up all thought , in any case not very realistic , of discussing the purloined letters with Blackadder . |
| 5 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 6 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 7 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 8 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 9 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 10 | The timing of the goal was a vital ingredient of this delirium , of course ( I for one had given up all hope by then ) , as was the venue ( we had n't won up there for decades ) ; but what really gave the night meaning was the anxiety and despair , year after year of it , that had gone before . |
| 11 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 12 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 13 | War heroes who served on the Russian convoys had given up all hope of receiving the award issued by the old Soviet Union . |
| 14 | Many ex-servicemen had given up all hope of ever seeing the tribute after the Ministry of Defence warned supplies could dry up following the break-up of the USSR . |
| 15 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 16 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 17 | Time and again it appeared that people had given up secure employment to farm full-time . |
| 18 | She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads . |
| 19 | Dotty had sat up all night assuring him that Dawn was n't his responsibility . |
| 20 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 21 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 22 | His sharp ears , predictably , had picked up that nuance . |
| 23 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 24 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 25 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |
| 26 | John had turned up one day in the shop . |
| 27 | Harrison explained that a few months earlier eight European environmentalists had stirred up international press coverage by chaining themselves to a logging barge at Miri . |
| 28 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 29 | Oliver scowled at him and went behind the plant , muttering a spell he had made up that morning . |
| 30 | What can not be doubted is that Unionists , who had drawn level with the Liberals in 1910 , had made up more ground on them since . |