Example sentences of "[conj] she have [adv] [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was glad now that she had n't put up the lights . |
| 2 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 3 | Her heart sank at the sight of fresh blood on the bandage , but she set about unwinding the strip of linen , praying that she had not opened up fitzAlan 's wound too badly in her frantic efforts to escape . |
| 4 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 5 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 6 | Alyssia smiled back and wondered whether she should pretend that she had somehow ended up at the wrong address . |
| 7 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 8 | Finding no way other than the direct question , he put it , and watched Yeo , unruffled , confirm that she had indeed put up £100,000 . |
| 9 | And on the second count , now that she 'd virtually made up her mind to visit the warehouse tonight , did she really want to discover the truth , after all … ? |
| 10 | His wife 's hair was straggling over her eyes , and she had not made up to hide the ravages of the night 's events . |
| 11 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 12 | Mum had taken to her bed in Jean 's place on the day she left our house , and she had n't got up since . |
| 13 | Anyway , he had given her enough money to have the baby comfortably ; and she had already made up her mind that she was n't going to have it adopted . |
| 14 | For some reason these thoughts of Emily sent her memory shooting back to the previous Friday in Vass 's office when he had brought up the subject of the new crèche and she had somehow ended up , almost aggressively , informing him that it was not her intention , ever , to remarry . |
| 15 | They 'll probably be in all night and she 's just walked up from the bingo and toddle in there . |
| 16 | And she just knew that , if she had not brought up the subject of Tony , he would have invited her to join him in his walk along the shore . |
| 17 | Belushi exudes all the erotic charisma of a frozen carp , Bracco looks and acts as if she 's just signed up with a Dial a Dime Hostess service and there are various large signposts pointing firmly at The Murderer . |
| 18 | She wondered what his lectures were like , but she had never taken up his invitation to come to CCNY and listen . |
| 19 | But she 'd already made up her mind . |
| 20 | But she has n't gone up there for ages . |
| 21 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 22 | ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up . |
| 23 | When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel . |
| 24 | The bed was untidy , as though she had merely pulled up the covers . |
| 25 | Doreen Wranklin could n't understand it as she had always paid up on time . |