Example sentences of "she had [verb] [pers pn] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had called him up from the bus station as soon as she got into the City . |
| 2 | They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap . |
| 3 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps she had made it up altogether , and there had been nobody , no phantom , no sleep-walker , nothing . |
| 5 | She had scrumpled it up and tossed it into the wastepaper basket with an insouciant laugh … well , more of a furious scowl , actually , and then had had to put up with Helena asking whether Matthew Prescott was that rather super chap who had been featured in GQ a short while ago . |
| 6 | And gradually the school declined , until she had to give it up and retire to end her days in the white cottage with the inevitable cat as her only companion . |
| 7 | She had to give it up when she became too sick . |
| 8 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 9 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 10 | My sister , Mrs Joe Gargery , was very proud of the fact that she had brought me up ‘ by hand ’ . |
| 11 | Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away . |
| 12 | She had to roll them up . |
| 13 | From time to time she had to pull him up . |
| 14 | She had drawn it up to her chin . |
| 15 | Her legs were so swollen , she had to cover them up . |
| 16 | Washing a potato is only a small development from brushing earth off it , which is something all macaques do anyway ; but the separation of sand from wheat required Imo to throw away the food after she had picked it up , and then wait for the sand to sink , before she collected her food up again . |
| 17 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 18 | It dangled past her fingertips , but she had bunched it up with a belt around her waist . |