Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be . |
| 2 | ‘ Once one has reached forty , one should have faced up to the fact of one 's own death , ’ Richard says . |
| 3 | The artist 's widow did not think it appropriate that the work should have ended up on the commercial circuit and has therefore refused to sign the document . |
| 4 | I should have dressed up like a 1970s saloon bar Tory and asked Sigourney about her baby , her husband and her miscarriage . |
| 5 | The thing that saddens me is that we 're supposed to have a T U C , that organization is supposed to draw together the various trade unions and what are we seeing , an ideal opportunity slipped from our grasp when the miners were facing the issue of jobs to public service workers should have linked up with the miners and we should have took the government on |
| 6 | … the earliest agriculture must have grown up round the shrines of the Mother Goddess , which thus became social and economic centres , as well as holy places , and were the germs of the future cities . |
| 7 | Many of them must have ended up in a British soldier 's mess-tin . |
| 8 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 9 | You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’ |
| 10 | She must have faced up to the worst outcome , in the process . |
| 11 | Connors said the guy must have curled up into a ball and hidden in a waste-basket . |
| 12 | ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 14 | Might have ended up with a house like this , ’ he added with a laugh . |
| 15 | Otherwise , with all those emotions swirling around inside , I might have ended up in a mental hospital banging my head against a wall , screaming ‘ mama' . ’ |
| 16 | It 's late , I know , but Alan Fine might have come up with the answer . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the new kind of assignment resembles the equitable assignment in being subject to equities , i.e. to claims or defences which the debtor or other person might have set up against the assignor . |
| 18 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 19 | Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy ; Mr Yeltsin has taken them on at their own game and beaten them . |
| 20 | Fatty : We could have turned up to the disco in these ! |
| 21 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
| 22 | Actually it was lucky that we went right over all three lanes of the motorway , there was a lot of people behind us , but luckily they saw the tyres , and they backed off , but we could have finished up in a real |
| 23 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 24 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 25 | God knows what lie she 'd have made up to the staff , and they 'd have believed her . |
| 26 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 27 | By then governments may have woken up to a yet more radical option . |
| 28 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 29 | Dozens of men with hand tools may have taken up to a year to dig out the brook banks and build arches and canal on top . |
| 30 | Surely Ashenden would have gone up to the Pay-Out desk immediately , if he 'd been there especially since that was the only time he was going to be in the betting-shop . |