Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] up [prep] the " 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 | 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 |
| 5 | … 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You must have shot up from the age of fourteen or so . ’ |
| 8 | She must have faced up to the worst outcome , in the process . |
| 9 | ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | They 'll have to go up into the attic . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | It 's late , I know , but Alan Fine might have come up with the answer . |
| 14 | I might have to walk up to the pier to find a bin . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , I 'm afraid I ca n't — and I 'm also afraid that you might have to face up to the fact that Silas has n't got private talks in mind , ’ Lucy pointed out gently . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Fatty : We could have turned up to the disco in these ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | God knows what lie she 'd have made up to the staff , and they 'd have believed her . |
| 22 | Somehow he 'd have to get up to the wood today to fetch down his Dad 's clippers and wire . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now being late , the headmaster always dealt with you fro being late , that was n't a teacher 's responsibility at all.You used to have to line up all those boys that were late , you used to have to line up outside the the headmaster 's room , one at a time , I I jus on each hand , you used to have a cane on each hand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But for the military prowess of the Duke of Parma , a Spanish general who overcame the city 's resistance in the 1580s , Antwerp would have ended up in the United Provinces ( today 's Holland ) rather than the Spanish Netherlands ( today 's Belgium ) . |
| 27 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 28 | So in a sense , although I have n't recorded in the meantime , I st I still would have ended up in the same place . |
| 29 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 30 | Julia flinched as she heard that and wondered how she herself would have stood up to the kind of life Raffaella was describing . |