Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Doctor , ’ threatened Fakrid , ‘ you 'd better have come up with something . |
| 2 | The ankle muscles were holding the foot in an almost normal position — oblivious to the fact that the joints had nothing to rest on , that this was a classic case of a boy who would normally have ended up with a club foot . |
| 3 | Besides John Winchcombe , junior , who was assessed at the unusually high figure of £630 , Newbury in 1522 had three residents worth £100 or so and ten more in the £40 — £99 range , including William Dolman who had been the elder Winchcombe 's works manager ; now , at 100 marks , he might already have set up in business for himself . |
| 4 | Perhaps the policeman had looked into Erlich 's face and calculated that if he had not stood aside then he might just have ended up on his back . |
| 5 | Melanie could easily have grown up into that sort of woman . |
| 6 | The competitive weakness of the British economy was truly overdetermined : even if the financial institutions had been more disposed towards promoting industrial investment , even if managements had been more competent and imaginative , the restructuring of industry would still have run up against the formidable defensive conservatism of the organised working class . |
| 7 | They may not always have turned up with what teachers would have wished , but I am sure that there has been a great acceptance of the way in which they have carried out a very difficult task . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So claiming that had this relationship continued Hilary would probably have ended up as the wife of a petrol pump attender rather than the wife of the President of the United States . |
| 10 | You 'd probably have ended up in an asylum . ’ |
| 11 | Lydia , picturing Hywel 's dark eyes , thought that he 'd probably have put up with a great deal rather than have strangers in his house . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Oddly enough , Stirling might well have ended up as a brigadier with an even larger command . |
| 14 | It is admitted that the gradings assigned to the respective countries have been done on a subjective basis and that different observers might well have come up with somewhat different rankings . |
| 15 | If they had interviewed the — what were then termed — clerical officers and assistants , they may well have come up with different results . |
| 16 | Earlier , for brief periods of the day , she had contemplated making up a foursome not unhappily , might have taken risks , might even have ended up in bed with someone , the classic holiday encounter . |
| 17 | Some may even have come up from the West Highland Way which runs below Am Bodach in a secluded glen parallel to Loch Leven . |
| 18 | Immigrant doctors in Britain may silently have put up with a lot of it in the past , but those born and educated in Britain have every right to expect that they will be judged strictly on merit . |
| 19 | I think the record , it 's available in the archives , historians who are honest and hardworking could even then have come up with erm answers that would have incriminated the German leaders of nineteen-fourteen , and therefore moved German society , I believe , substantially towards the democratic centre , if not the Social Democratic Left . |
| 20 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 21 | I said , ‘ Goodness me , if you were really ill , you could never have stood up to this trip the way you have . |
| 22 | Bourgeois , even liberal , France , would never have given up without a fight . |
| 23 | Desire , yes , of course , or they would never have ended up like this , but also a reluctant fascination and a curiously protective tendency that she found both touching and revealing . |
| 24 | He 'd upset her thoroughly , and obviously she was still sulking , because she would never have got up before him otherwise . |
| 25 | I know now I 'd never have caught up in time in my old car . |