Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ten past nine the entrance and drive-way of the Grand Hotel had filled up with eager Tories , wearing their photo-passes with all the pride of the Old Contemptibles , conference agendas to hand . |
| 2 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 3 | From 1877 trunk lines were begun on both North and South Islands to cement the short , separate , coast-to-interior railways which had developed up to that date . |
| 4 | The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year . |
| 5 | Charlie Hatton had always been cocky but in the past weeks he 'd become insufferable and most of the meetings had broken up like this . |
| 6 | More seriously , it was also alleged that senior public figures , including both government and opposition party officials , had received up to 40,000 million yen in payments from the Tokyo branch of the company . |
| 7 | Surviving papers relating to the removal of 433 paupers and vagrants between 1740 and 1762 show that 40 per cent of these unfortunates had come from other parts of East Anglia , 15 per cent had travelled up to 100 miles , 6 per cent had started from London and Middlesex and 39 per cent originated elsewhere , including thirty-three people from Scotland and sixteen from Ireland . |
| 8 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 9 | Bernice had caught up with Rosheen as she left the city . |
| 10 | She and her companion had come up under full sail to my table . |
| 11 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 12 | It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt . |
| 13 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 14 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 15 | On Dec. 18 most Moldavian deputies staged a walkout because representatives of the separatist Gagauz and Dnestr Russian communities were taking part in the Congress as guests ( on the previous day a rally against the treaty in Kishinev , Moldavia 's capital , had attracted up to 200,000 people ) . |
| 16 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 17 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 18 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 19 | It had a cast of virtual unknowns and failed to score highly in the ratings , with average viewing figures of only five million — although it had picked up in recent weeks with about seven million . |
| 20 | It was in the sleeve of a classical album which Rakovsky 's junior secretary had picked up from one of Berlin 's best-known music shop on the Tiergarten . |
| 21 | By 1987 , those figures had shot up to 2,870 cases of the use of knives in offences against the person and 4,630 cases where they were used in robberies — a huge increase . |
| 22 | A report published on Dec. 17 by the European Communities indicated that 9.9 per cent of European forests had suffered up to 25 per cent defoliation in the previous year . |
| 23 | The Turkish government declared that the security of its diplomats was threatened following the screening in March of a programme on West German television , which claimed that West German security services had uncovered up to 30 Turkish secret police , posing as diplomats , who were spying on the 1,500,000 Turks in West Germany . |
| 24 | These people had turned up with uncanny speed . |
| 25 | So Connie Fraser had turned up after all . |
| 26 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 27 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 28 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |
| 29 | The drawing and the birdwatching had grown up as complementary interests from a very young age . |
| 30 | Others had grown up around old-established trading posts , such as those on the Gold Coast or in Sierra Leone . |