Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads .
2 His sharp ears , predictably , had picked up that nuance .
3 There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her .
4 Oliver scowled at him and went behind the plant , muttering a spell he had made up that morning .
5 It was somewhere along the lane between Nunes and Hadleigh but so much vegetation had grown up that spring that everything looked different .
6 She could follow the shoreline all the way to where they had pulled up that afternoon looking for shelter , but that would take hours .
7 Hopelessly outnumbered , they had charged up that slope , cutting and slashing their way through the serried ranks of Russian cavalry , forcing them back , back …
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