Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching . |
| 2 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 3 | Cos I thought well the couple had only just walked up there and I thought to myself oh well he might meet up with them , you know . |
| 4 | Laba , who was later to become one of our shipmates , had been a fruit farmer and had only recently taken up sailing on the advice of the local shaman after a string of close calls with pythons . |
| 5 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 6 | The organisation he had so painstakingly built up had successfully weathered several crises over the past week . |
| 7 | Everywhere else the ground was held solid under the rain by the vast grip of the vegetation which had so rapidly sprung up . |
| 8 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
| 9 | Translucent shapes undulated through the jungle , glimmering in the sunlight : the only life the Lucifer System had so far offered up for study . |
| 10 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 11 | Mother had long since given up remonstrating with us on the need to show respect and reverence towards our aunts , her sisters-in-law . |
| 12 | Colonel Fergusson had long since given up trying to understand the business . |
| 13 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 14 | This had long since dried up , but it seems that in the past the population from all the local area would come to this one patch . |
| 15 | Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes , 48 , had not exactly dressed up for his meeting with John Major . |
| 16 | Strathclyde , a huge left-Labour-controlled council , had not even set up the required risk-capital fund . |
| 17 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 18 | He had not yet made up his mind whether he would speak in Thursday 's debate on immigration . |
| 19 | In any event , and this is the real answer , Bismarck had not yet given up hope of bringing his scheme to a successful conclusion and even though it seemed difficult to envisage just how this could be done , he waited for his moment . |
| 20 | In 1095 , Anselm had not yet given up hope of working amicably with the king . |
| 21 | The Water Board had not yet caught up with them . |
| 22 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 23 | While in hospital I had mentioned to my surgeon that I intended to go to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre , although at that time I had not actually made up my mind . |
| 24 | Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again . |
| 25 | When I checked up on his progress I was startled to find that he had not only planted up the four pots but his red wellington boots as well , liberally watering both them and himself and then garnishing with sprigs of a semi-dormant fuchsia as a finishing touch . |
| 26 | Li Yuan swallowed , sensing that everything depended on what he said in the next few moments ; that his father had not quite made up his mind , even now . |
| 27 | I suppose that Kenneth Ingram , the editor , had not quite made up his mind about what I had written , which is the reason why I had forwarded it to Eliot . |
| 28 | Now i d in our debate we , we had separately actually come up with very similar f processes . |
| 29 | It was more surprising coming from thrusting thirtysomethings who had probably never picked up a copy in their lives , certainly not since their last visit to the school dentist . |
| 30 | He had n't yet made up his mind where to head for but he needed shelter . |