Example sentences of "had [vb pp] up and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , of course , the man who had once brought in a cup , painted black on the inside and white on the outside , and , after pointing out its close resemblance to the soul of the average sinner , had jumped up and down on it , foaming at the mouth . |
| 2 | So a rumour grew up that perhaps , at the last minute , he had jumped up and caught hold of part of the car and had clambered on to it somehow . |
| 3 | Edouard thought of Isobel 's family , of her grandfathers , uncles , cousins , who had propped up and maintained an empire , who had fought , and ruled , in India , in Africa . |
| 4 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 5 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
| 6 | About 30 tons of turf and top soil , and several tons of burned tarmac , were removed from the area over which the aircraft had broken up and come to rest ; the tyres of vehicles , footwear of personnel , and all items of equipment used at the site , were taken to the hanger and cleaned of mud and grass . |
| 7 | But the Charlie Bubbles character , which Finney played , his marriage had broken up and he was n't getting on with his kids . |
| 8 | Old Red waited until the Jemps-Dungarvan mutual-admiration society had broken up and Mr Jemps was climbing into his lorry . |
| 9 | By mid-season Lotus had given up and gone back to the 72 . |
| 10 | It ca n't have been the script , which tried unconvincingly to suggest multiple reconciliation under the spell of the Castello Brown ( the castle 's real-life name , believe me or not ) and then petered out , as if the adaptor had given up and left the cast to improvise . |
| 11 | It 's as if everyone else had given up and the Government then said , ‘ Oh , give the workers some money and let them have a go . ’ |
| 12 | Stefan was in the front booking office ; not really his job but the front of house manager had given up and gone home to bed . |
| 13 | Er one of the members of staff of the Leiston Grammar School , a chap named Johnny erm , was in charge of his trainees and erm there again erm Arthur and our section became responsible for erm all this in-service training for er , er women mainly because the men of course had joined up and erm the used to come in quite often and er he got , used to get so upset because he could n't erm , he got at cross purposes with some of these ladies |
| 14 | We went in December and most of the indigenous population had curled up and gone to sleep . |
| 15 | The rain had let up and we walked at first , then as the first drops turned into a steady drizzle , we took a cab . |
| 16 | She had sat up and was pulling her fingers through the tangled forest . |
| 17 | Ace had sat up and discarded the ice-pack so that he could face her . |
| 18 | She had sat up and stretched out a hand to lift the receiver when she paused . |
| 19 | ‘ It would n't have surprised me if he had sat up and shouted ‘ Geronimo ’ as he went , ’ he said . |
| 20 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 21 | As the tiny head , covered in silky black hair , nestled warmly in the palm of her hand , she had looked up and met eyes full of tenderness and love , eyes the colour of slate . |
| 22 | I could not have been more bemused if characters from books had come up and started talking to me . |
| 23 | The moon had come up and laid a greenish iridescence on the surface of the lake . |
| 24 | ‘ We could see what looked like a range of hills from our window but they 'd gone by the morning — nothing left but huge ripples as if a great tide had come up and washed them away . |
| 25 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |
| 26 | Sales had picked up and the paper was now established . |
| 27 | Suddenly she lifted her hand and examined the brown , greasy deposit that her fingers had picked up and grimaced in disgust . |
| 28 | Yet when the BBC did their big programme two or three years ago ( commissioned by Michael Grade ) about women in the media , although they had phoned up and , as it were , picked our brains about women and Channel 4 , they quite failed to honour the fact what Channel 4 had done . |
| 29 | erm because I 'd phoned up and asked for them , er my secretary had phoned up and asked for a meeting with her but the response was we 're not allowed to meet with you , so we said okay , cos it 's public money and things |
| 30 | Once a grand place in its own grounds , suburban London had crept up and round it , trapping it among the terraced streets . |