Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 3 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 4 | At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job . |
| 5 | ‘ Now I 've given up all hope ( of returning to Formula One ) . ’ |
| 6 | Actually , it 's a very pleasant way to work — I 've set up one room for word processing and another for screenshot manipulation , so I can switch back and forth between the two whilst I 'm writing captions . |
| 7 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 8 | ‘ And I 've brought up some bread and jam , in case anybody 's hungry . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , it 's a bit early , but I have dug up one piece of information that you 'll enjoy . |
| 10 | I have given up all idea now of going to Kings and shall make my way across the Island as quickly as I can making a call or two on the way . |
| 11 | I have sat up all night attempting to watch the fish in the dark with the aid of a torch and the Orange Spot does venture out of the bogwood and hunts around for food . |
| 12 | During the war she worked as a translator , and at the time of the action of the novel she has taken up this trade again recently . |
| 13 | Yeah I 'm sure you 'd packed up last time I saw you . |
| 14 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 15 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 16 | ‘ I know that you 've built up some kind of sustaining narrative behind your eidetic delusion — it can not but be otherwise . |
| 17 | " The breakfast 's on the floor , and anyway , by the time you 've cleared up this mess we 'll be gone . |
| 18 | Mm is that you 've saved up this year ? |
| 19 | You 've grown up that way . |
| 20 | You 've set up this meeting for me and I ca n't thank you enough . |
| 21 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 22 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 23 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 24 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 25 | One day she had plucked up enough courage to look through the doorway , and had almost choked on the clouds of swirling dust . |
| 26 | Then , at last feeling fairly safe , she allowed herself to sink into the nearest chair , totally drained by everything that had happened since she had woken up this morning . |
| 27 | She certainly had n't expected anything like this when she had got up this morning . |
| 28 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 29 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 30 | She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads . |