Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] up from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage . |
| 2 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 3 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 4 | I WROTE to the Prime Minister about short-wave radio broadcasts I had picked up from Yugoslavia , giving eyewitness accounts of atrocities by Serbians . |
| 5 | I mean , what I was going to say , from what I 've picked up from some of the comments from some of the district , district councils ' consultation it makes me wonder if they 're capable of actually taking on the role of social services in joint commissioning . |
| 6 | Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point . |
| 7 | I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA . |
| 8 | No , it 's alright cos someone 's rung up from home , say be in eight o'clock , so she wants to do something . |
| 9 | This tourniquet is released before the needle is withdrawn from the vein to prevent the back-pressure which has built up from causing the blood to spurt out and form a bruise . |
| 10 | ‘ Look , lady , nothing about you has measured up from the beginning . |
| 11 | Yeah , she 's great — she has split up from her husband and works for her and the kids , a really independent woman who 's been messed around by men and is now looking after herself . |
| 12 | ‘ You people come down here to perform , and you 're obviously really experienced , and we wonder where you 've sprung up from , ’ they comment , a little defensively . |
| 13 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 14 | Holding the red Conway Stewart pen she had picked up from the grass , she went over the scene again and again . |
| 15 | He eyed Fenella uncertainly and Fenella , who was becoming impatient , said , ‘ Well , for heaven 's sake — ’ which was an expression she had picked up from Snizort and Snodgrass and which was as meaningless as most of their expressions , but descriptive of strong emotion . |
| 16 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 17 | She began to ask questions , about the other two women , the Refuge , even some of the mysterious topics she had picked up from meal times . |
| 18 | When he had finished packing , he had tapped on her door , and she had looked up from her books , grateful for the interruption . |
| 19 | On the opposite side were the men who had marched up from Levenmouth . |
| 20 | He had sent for Philip who had raced up from Wales to coach and instruct this miraculous son in a great Shakespearian role to be performed in an Oxford college before an audience of West End luminaries ( Gielgud , Terence Rattigan ) : ‘ We worked on it line by line , hour after hour , into the early morning … |
| 21 | Nick saw a stocky , lively-looking man in a cloth cap and baggy trousers , who had bounced up from his haunches eager as a puppy . |
| 22 | You had to be the , the perfect woman who was one , who had grown up from the little girl of the eighteen-thirties who was all bouncy and skippy and optimistic ; now she had to be very quiet , she was admired for her innocence , for her delicate nature and her dainty physique . |
| 23 | The many journalists , who had sprung up from nowhere , he 'd left to his sergeant . |
| 24 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 25 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 26 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 27 | They were by now in Piccadilly Circus , which was as bright as day , and were surrounded by the crowds streaming from the theatres , cafés and dives which populated the area , painted ladies of a certain character being prominent among them — as well as the enthusiastic amateurs who had come up from the East End to make a few pennies , or even be given supper , as a price for their favours . |
| 28 | He was being heckled , jeered and booed by the vast majority , which included several hundred workers who had driven up from the Midlands ' plants to influence the vote . |
| 29 | There is a point just outside the village to the east ( i.e. the direction you have come up from ) , from where everyone tells you the views are best . |
| 30 | ‘ You have come up from the coast then ? |