Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd almost given you up , ’ said Emlyn , half nettled , half intrigued . |
| 2 | I got the bowl from last night — imagine , I had n't washed it up ! — and poured myself some . |
| 3 | If I had n't brought you up , you 'd be in the churchyard with our parents . |
| 4 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 5 | I 've just phoned her up just to tell her . |
| 6 | I 've just looked it up . |
| 7 | I 've just picked it up |
| 8 | I 'm telling ya , I 've just had it up to there honest I told Dave this morning , he says well he says I ca n't , he , you 're not losing anything , going and sitting and listening to the man |
| 9 | aye , let's have a separate meeting on that I mean I 've largely left it up to and and one or two others that I 've met up there |
| 10 | I do n't blame Victor for being angry : I simply do n't know what happened to my tape recorder ; I 've never fouled it up before . ’ |
| 11 | I have n't made it up . |
| 12 | No of course I have n't locked it up because I ca n't find my keys … |
| 13 | Maybe I have n't kept it up to her standards but I 've done my best . " |
| 14 | I have n't given it up . ’ |
| 15 | It 's probably in the dialect book , I have n't looked it up . |
| 16 | And I mean I have n't put them up yet . |
| 17 | ‘ I hope I have n't held you up for too long , ’ she apologised quickly , realising that he could well have an appointment , and that he was on the point of leaving . |
| 18 | Well I have n't yet , I have n't picked it up yet . |
| 19 | I know I a I know I have n't got you up . |
| 20 | Perhaps I am dreaming , he thought , perhaps I have simply conjured him up . |
| 21 | I hope that figure is right er , I have to confess that I have not added it up and er the copy that I have , the five and the nine could be mistaken for other figures , but I hope that there the right figures to that must be added first the general damages a calculation which like all by other calculations need to be carefully checked , I would er calculate the interest on general damages to date would be five thousand , two hundred and seven pounds future care totals six hundred and twelve thousand , five hundred and seventeen pounds suitable accommodation , seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds , transport costs thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds , that makes a total of one million , two hundred and six thousand , three hundred and thirty eight pounds that is the amount which I would be minding to award , I understand that the parties in the light of that would wish to have further discussions about the matter |
| 22 | ‘ Before all this I had never been a fisherman but I have now taken it up and am enjoying it , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ And on present evidence a back-door man like you has n't got it up there . |
| 24 | Yeah well by then you 'd , you 'd already messed him up , she must 've got him to sleep before she put him down in the cot did she ? |
| 25 | And you had a bit of rage or duster or something , you 'd got your slate filled , you 'd just wiped it up , and dried it , start again . |
| 26 | Er , my my natural mother er , actually had me adopted when I was a baby and erm so I was actually adopted by a minister and his wife and I think , erm , I would have been brought up completely differently if she , she 'd just bought me up on her own , you know , so I think erm oh that 's it really . |
| 27 | But then you 've not used it up , and so there 's certain things that are now going to happen . |
| 28 | There have been some hand outs as you come in hopefully you 've actually picked them up , on part of that hand out is a questionnaire towards the end which I hope everybody will find the time to fill in . |
| 29 | The telephone was already ringing by the time Folly returned to the flat , and she had almost picked it up before realising that the only person likely to be ringing her was Luke . |
| 30 | Just when we thought we were comfortably settled , Mrs Brown informed us that some friends who took a stall in the Bedford market were coming the next Saturday and that , as she had always put them up , would we mind sleeping in the kitchen on a sofa and a shake-down ? |