Example sentences of "have [verb] up [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
| 3 | He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way . |
| 4 | Going back to the agents up in the town , the boatmen to get information about a ship coming in they would have to go up to the town |
| 5 | They would have to go up to the town , yes |
| 6 | Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’ |
| 7 | They 'll have to go up into the attic . |
| 8 | Yet despite one way traffic at times , Newcastle will have to tighten up at the heart of a defence that looked vulnerable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below . |
| 12 | They would not have come up with the rest of the cash for at least another year . |
| 13 | It 's late , I know , but Alan Fine might have come up with the answer . |
| 14 | Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven . |
| 15 | Fatty : We could have turned up to the disco in these ! |
| 16 | You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’ |
| 17 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 18 | Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be . |
| 19 | I wondered briefly what a British nursing sister would have said , but the act of motherly comfort may well have made up for the lack of quiet during the day . |
| 20 | I might have to walk up to the pier to find a bin . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Josh will have to put up with the life that his mother can afford to lead . ’ |
| 22 | It seems that England might just have to put up with the barracking of the public , press and the other home nations Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | The Government are hoping to carry on and according to the Secretary of State for the Environment the people will have to put up with the tax until 1993 . |
| 24 | You 'll just have to put up with the printer chugging away . |
| 25 | I shall just have to put up with the pain . ’ |
| 26 | Steve would have read her note , waited for her to phone and say she had arrived safely and when she had n't he would have driven up to the north of the island to find her . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 'm afraid you 'll have to wake up to the fact that that kind of man from that kind of a family would n't know the meaning of love . ’ |