Example sentences of "had already [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he rang Joanne to check Nigel 's movements in the week before Steen 's death , a strange female voice answered and informed him that Miss Menzies had already gone up to Scotland for her Christmas holidays . |
| 2 | Some businesses vowed they would be back today and a number of ‘ business as usual ’ signs had already gone up around shop windows . |
| 3 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
| 4 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 5 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 6 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 7 | In December 1922 he resigned graciously to return to his large goods store which had already started up in June . |
| 8 | By this time , Sinead had already linked up with Farrelly in Dublin |
| 9 | Some of those problems had already shown up on the print-outs , let alone from the drivers . |