Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [vb pp] [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
2 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
3 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
4 | Cloud was advancing steadily again over the moon 's face , and its shadow rolled across the mitred stones of the abbots , and covered the dark inward movement of the men who had followed him up from the water . |
5 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
6 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
7 | The rejection of the original bill was criticized strongly by Vaclav Klaus , the Czech Prime Minister and leader of the Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) , who had drawn it up with his Slovak counterpart and leader of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) , Vladimir Meciar [ see pp. 39061-62 ] . |
8 | She doubted if Williams were a major player — even on the telephone , he sounded a loser — but at least he might tell her who had put him up to it . |
9 | It was Elspeth who had put him up to it . |
10 | We were surprised that the sultan had even noticed our arrival , but the young courier who had taken us up to the guesthouse laughed . |
11 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |