Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] up in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In December 1922 he resigned graciously to return to his large goods store which had already started up in June . |
| 8 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
| 9 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 10 | At the bottom end of the educational scale I remember so very clearly the instances — and there were far too many of them for my peace of mind — where the school had virtually given up in the face of difficulties . |
| 11 | The quiet Swiss man had actually turned up in a three-piece suit and tie , with a large amount of baggage ; one of the Belgians had two suitcases and a hand grip . |
| 12 | Dustin 's salary had certainly gone up in leaps and bounds , from $17,000 for The Graduate , to $250,000 for Midnight Cowboy , to $425,000 for John and Mary . |