Example sentences of "i 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 .
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