Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd already given up trying to please my father . |
| 2 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 3 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd almost given up hope that you 'd ever see me as a girl … a woman . |
| 5 | But I 've walked past so many pretty dresses and little socks with lacy tops , I 'd almost given up . |
| 6 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |
| 7 | I had even built up quite a good knowledge of medical terms . |
| 8 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 9 | Wish I had n't messed up every relationship I ever had . ’ |
| 10 | I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought . |
| 11 | ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd put the new tyre on , but I had n't tightened up the wheel . ’ |
| 13 | It soon became reasonably certain that I had n't picked up any kind of tails or bugs , and so I could begin to relax . |
| 14 | I had n't picked up on it , and he had no hand at all in your coming to work for me . |
| 15 | It might have continued like this indefinitely if I had n't picked up a copy of the Kensington News , a paper Daphne took so she could find out what was showing at the local picture house . |
| 16 | I discussed my feelings with the woman in question and I slept with her , but I deeply regretted it later on and was sorry that I had n't weighed up the consequences more thoroughly beforehand . |
| 17 | I guess that if I had n't taken up the trenchcoat and fedora to walk the alleyways of history as the greatest detective of them all , I might well have become a poet . |
| 18 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had n't put up a fight on behalf of the men . ’ |
| 20 | Had she but known it I had already made up my mind to get better , and nothing in the world was further from my thoughts than death . ’ |
| 21 | I had already made up my mind to join the South African tour when it happened , so it was fortuitous in a way . |
| 22 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
| 23 | Andy and I had already split up before their thing got going , but even so , it makes you think a bit . ’ |
| 24 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 25 | I had already coughed up forty bucks at the door . |
| 26 | In fact , I had already picked up quite a lot about ‘ Lucky ’ Lucan and what had happened . |
| 27 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 28 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 29 | I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack . |
| 30 | I had just stood up , fully clothed by the doorway , when one of the harmonisers stopped with a snort and a wakeful chomp of his lips . |