Example sentences of "[that] had [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 2 | At the start of the next session , mindful of the head of steam that had built up on the issue , Ede announced that the Government had decided to recommend the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the possible limitation or modification of the death penalty . |
| 3 | Dressed in the plant 's uniform of white overalls and cap , he was conducting an exercise to release the excess energy that had built up in the honeycomb matrix of graphite blocks which surrounded the uranium nuclear fuel . |
| 4 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 5 | Jesus chucked out the rubbish from the temple and swept away some of the traditions that had grown up over the years , insisting that his house become again a house of prayer for all nations . |
| 6 | The duchess , recalling her own upbringing amidst a lively brood of brothers and sisters , recognized this , and was gratified by the devotion and closeness that had grown up between the girls . |
| 7 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
| 8 | Everything that had happened up in the wood had put it out of his head . |
| 9 | The essence of the British suggestion was that the time had come to rationalise the proliferation of European institutions that had sprung up over the past decade , most specifically by introducing a single European assembly which , unrelated to any one organisation , would serve them all . |
| 10 | They were in obvious danger from the revolutionary " khomieths " that had sprung up throughout the country to enforce radical change . |
| 11 | The benefits became clearer as companies , like the multinational Philips , fired their workers and contracted work out , often to the hundreds of small outfits that had sprung up in the surrounding Lima shanty towns of Villa El Salvador , Comas , or Independencia . |
| 12 | The end of their fearful regime left the country with the task of reconstructing the entire Greek economy and bridging the deep rifts that had opened up between the Greek people themselves . |