Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee must have got safely up to Jubilee Wood . |
| 2 | The irony is that had the tower been higher and had the teak ‘ scrubbers ’ been less efficient , the smoke would have gone straight up into the air . |
| 3 | The accumulation of debris flows in this area has caused the shelf-edge to have prograded seawards up to 5 kilometres in places . |
| 4 | Her arm linked through his , publicly staking her claim , the woman had gazed adoringly up at him , and with ill-concealed triumph at everyone else . |
| 5 | By 9 January 1177 he had besieged Dax , which had been held against him by the Viscount of Dax and Bigorre , and taken it ; he had besieged Bayonne , which the Viscount of Bayonne had held against him , and taken it ; he had marched right up to " the Gate of Spain " at Cize and there he had captured and demolished the castle of St Pierre . |
| 6 | She was warm , deliciously warm , all over , for the first time since leaving Scotland , and when she had arrived , but an hour before , she had come straight up to Aunt Emily 's room with no injunctions to change her boots or smooth her hair , and been given a tray of tea and toast cut into little fingers and tiny biscuits flavoured with almond . |
| 7 | Manuel Caballeros with a 66 had moved menacingly up to fifth place with the little Japanese , Otaki . |
| 8 | She had appealed right up to the Director of the Bureau , and after telephoning Vice-President Odell he had agreed to bring her along . |
| 9 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 10 | Emboldened by this , he had gone straight up to her and said that he had heard she had called him and wanted him . |
| 11 | At least , he 'd hated her after that single flare of interest as she 'd climbed out of Peter 's hired jeep , but it had died instantly when , striding boyishly round the front of the vehicle , Peter had gone straight up to his elder brother and announced , ‘ Meet my amazing fiancée , big brother ! ’ |
| 12 | He had stepped right up to her desk . |
| 13 | In 1357 the clerical author of the short De miserabili statu regni Francie , reflecting upon the disaster of Poitiers , praised the courage of the king , John II , who had fought bravely up to the very moment of his capture , but condemned in strong terms the failure and lack of heart of the nobility , the ‘ duces belli ’ who had failed in their obligation to the French state . |
| 14 | Personnel changes have percolated right up to the boardroom . |
| 15 | Oh one 's gone right up to the top of the |