Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] up " in BNC.

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1 Though I had made up my mind .
2 In this particular Mess I had hardly sat down before I felt completely at home , and before I had finished the meal , I had made up my mind that if this particular unit would have me , this was where I would stay .
3 After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 .
4 But I had made up my mind that I must not get emotional , so I hid all my feelings .
5 I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged .
6 I had made up my mind to put this proposition to you today , ’ he said , ‘ but I see now that this was not the right moment to approach you , ma petite .
7 It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played .
8 After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain .
9 Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again .
10 However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ?
11 I liked her from the moment I met her , and I well recall the occasion — I had turned up at their place and she appeared in the yard from the shed carrying buckets of milk .
12 I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back .
13 Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started .
14 And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and
15 I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there .
16 My sister still lives in Berkhamsted , where she and I had grown up and where she and John had subsequently made their home .
17 I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’
18 In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did .
19 I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . "
20 I had grown up with class but it was a shifting , unstable , changing force and you fancied across it regardless , for the world was open .
21 After all , I had grown up with her and Hindley .
22 I had grown up in Addis Ababa where there were few permanent buildings other than the Legations .
23 ‘ By the time I was just 22 , I had run up a clothes debt of nearly £4,000 ’
24 Like an actor in a Monty Python sketch , I suddenly fiddled with my fingers as though checking my nails and said , ‘ You 'd better get away , the police are coming ’ — as if I had run up specially to tell him .
25 I had straightened up and moved aside so that the sun no longer dazzled me and I could see Sweetman properly , and what I saw I did not like .
26 At that point , I hated her with a strength I never knew I had possessed up until then .
27 I thought to myself that I had landed up in a place without an inch of ground to call my own .
28 ‘ On the Friday night I had stayed up to watch the late film , and at 3.30am I decided that it was n't worthwhile going to bed as I had to be at John 's house at seven o'clock .
29 And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking .
30 But I knew there 'd have to come a time when I broke the news to him that the education system and I had split up .
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