Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [vb pp] [pron] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All except one , who had worked herself up into such a frenzy of excitement , that she became quite terrified and galloped straight into a fence — which fortunately was made of pine rails that collapsed harmlessly under the assault . |
| 9 | Erlich heard his instructions to the lady who had brought him up to the third floor . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was Elspeth who had put him up to it . |
| 13 | We were surprised that the sultan had even noticed our arrival , but the young courier who had taken us up to the guesthouse laughed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
| 16 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |