Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hipper , steaming northward parallel to Beatty , again sighted his enemy to the west at about 17.40 ; he immediately turned east but was then bombarded by Hood , who had inadvertently taken up a wrong station . |
| 2 | But Leavitt had already signed up a group of Masai from another district . |
| 3 | The Hyde Housing Association , responsible for the site , had already drawn up a list of people ‘ with strong connections with Medstead — basically those who had been resident in the village for over five years , or former residents who had moved away and wished to return , ’ said Mr. Winter . |
| 4 | Discussions on economic and monetary union were further advanced and the Commission had already drawn up a draft treaty . |
| 5 | Muddiman , however , had meanwhile built up a lucrative sideline by sending handwritten news reports to private correspondents , which could include items on parliamentary proceedings which were forbidden in print . |
| 6 | He had just picked up a particularly attractive ring , when a girl 's voice said , ‘ That 's not for sale . ’ |
| 7 | A radio ham called Tony and an ambulance driver who had just picked up a man with bandaged fingers who was suffering from exposure . |
| 8 | His parents had named him after Franklin D. Roosevelt and he had carefully built up a similar outwardly benevolent image . |
| 9 | The tennis equipment specialists , Head , had brought some racquets and accessories along and had also set up a ‘ speed-gun ’ to record service speeds . |
| 10 | Her exclusion from Italy was less important , but had also tidied up a dangling thread of history . |
| 11 | When the procession , which had now picked up a large following , reached Grassgill End the effigy was placed on a small stone area at the roadside , its clothes were drenched with paraffin and it was set alight . |
| 12 | Morse had immediately picked up a copy of The Times , and proceeded to hold this newspaper like a crusader flaunting his emblazoned shield as he 'd stood beside Hodges at the check-out . |
| 13 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |
| 14 | Other colleagues working in schools or adult training centres from our authority were also asked to participate , as together we had previously set up a voluntary curriculum development group to look at authority-wide provision for young people and adults with severe learning difficulties . |
| 15 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |
| 16 | [ Before du Pre 's death in 1987 , he had quietly set up a second household in Paris with the former wife of violinist Gideon Kramer . ] |