Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 2 | Do you know what yours has gone up to ? |
| 3 | Within days , for instance , I 'd broken up with my girlfriend , because things came to the surface that I had been neatly burying away for years . |
| 4 | It was incredible that I 'd ended up in her kitchen , too , because she was the perfect person for me to cry on — and she , knowing me from way back when , was a phenomenal comfort to me , explaining so much I did n't know about the Jewish way of death , about the absence of hell , about the soul . |
| 5 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 6 | The attitudes and assumptions I 'd grown up with had been razed to the ground , and a bold new society had risen in their place , a free-enterprise , demand-driven , flaunt-it-and-fuck-you society , dedicated to excellence and achievement . |
| 7 | And more than that , I 'd grown up with divorced parents and I do think kids need a mother and a father . ’ |
| 8 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd gone up to Ethel 's sister to cheer her up because she was looking so miserable . |
| 10 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | It was almost as if the independent life I 'd built up of necessity was being disrupted by Grant 's presence . |
| 13 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 14 | I 'd turned up on NBC talking about Middle East narco-terrorism right after Flight 103 crashed . |
| 15 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 16 | He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch . |
| 17 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 18 | Of all the things I 'd got up to in my time , I never thought I 'd be stitched for trying to return someone 's stolen property . |
| 19 | Then the afternoon , we 'd had lunch anyway I 'd got up out the chair , I was so bloody livid ! |
| 20 | Yes , Sally says we 'll do it , we 'll change it in the car alright , just as I was saying we had erm , we had roast dinner , Charlotte do n't aggravate him , we had roast lamb , erm and I 'd washed up by two o'clock |
| 21 | I thought I 'd woken up in Heaven . |
| 22 | I liked her from the moment I met her , and I well recall the occasion — I had turned up at their place and she appeared in the yard from the shed carrying buckets of milk . |
| 23 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 24 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 25 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 26 | I had grown up with class but it was a shifting , unstable , changing force and you fancied across it regardless , for the world was open . |
| 27 | After all , I had grown up with her and Hindley . |
| 28 | I had grown up in Addis Ababa where there were few permanent buildings other than the Legations . |
| 29 | I thought to myself that I had landed up in a place without an inch of ground to call my own . |
| 30 | By about 4.30 am I had given up on trying to sleep so I got up to have a shower . |