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

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1 But this was a boat was saw s , over the up the side of the mainland , in fact , which had been er whether it had been tied up too tight in fact I wo , now , now for leeway and the thing had just sunk .
2 There had been a path there once but it had been ploughed up and incorporated into the field long ago .
3 ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . )
4 It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner .
5 Instead , the whole coating would have to be repainted much sooner that if it had been touched up periodically !
6 Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced
7 It had been opened up and re-stitched in a different coloured thread .
8 It looked a shambles on the live broadcast , but by the evening showing it had been cleaned up thanks to some additional mobile camera coverage .
9 Other mornings it had been rolled up and put in a plastic case within minutes of my getting out of it .
10 There are two pightles in this parish , both referring to elongated pieces of land , relics of the time when such shapes were left at the edge of a field after it had been divided up for strip-cultivation .
11 After it had been smashed up , written off .
12 Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone .
13 It had been set up ‘ to advise on questions relating to representation at board level in the private sector ’ with the following terms of reference : Here , then , was a proposal to promote industrial democracy in a particular specification .
14 It had been set up with a directly practical focus : to provide insights and resources which would help teachers in initial training to prepare themselves to use activities involving collaborative work between children .
15 The KANU policy review failed to address demands for wide-ranging political reform , although it had been set up after the rioting in July 1990 in the wake of a growing campaign by pro-democracy supporters [ p. 37603 ] .
16 When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard .
17 It had been held up because of the freezing of assistance to the Soviet Union ( also released on the same day — see p. 38105 ) .
18 The BBC put on a programme about the event a few years ago , harping particularly on the fact that it had been hushed up until then .
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