Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 2 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 3 | The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat . |
| 4 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 5 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 6 | Moisture from the inflated covers might have gingered up the pitch somewhat for the third day , and with the ball still quite new , England 's bowlers were clearly interested in a breakthrough . |
| 7 | Folly felt an urge to wash , as if the words had been printed in dark , inky type in the headline of a tabloid newspaper and her hands might have picked up the stain . |
| 8 | Keep him from chasing younger birds — if he could 've summoned up the energy . |
| 9 | So the chalk could have absorbed up the grease . |
| 10 | A COMPUTER blip could have messed up the statements of millions of credit card customers , it was revealed last night . |
| 11 | At one time you could have travelled up the Aspe valley by railway , and entered Spain through a tunnel five miles long under the final ridge . |
| 12 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 13 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |
| 14 | Southend then enjoyed a revival but after 63 minutes Malkin could have tied up the points when set up by Aldridge but Sansome made an excellent save . |
| 15 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 16 | We could have harnessed up the goat-cart and come and fetched you . |
| 17 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 18 | Blanche may have made up the prowling . |
| 19 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 20 | ‘ We think someone may have picked up the jeans innocently , and maybe now thinks it 's too late to come forward , ’ a Norfolk police spokesman said . |
| 21 | The UK 's Clean Air Acts , which forced many homes to replace coal-burning fires with smokeless fuel , gas or electric versions , may have cleaned up the smog from out cities , but the utilitarian heaters and radiators that replaced those fires seemed to take some of the cheer from our lives . |
| 22 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 23 | The company could n't foresee great success or they would have tied up the band for years by way of contract options . |
| 24 | when the reactor was left hot on that July morning , heat would have crept up the metal to the condenser and melted the crystals , letting tetrachlorobenzene flow back into the reactor and lie in a concentrated layer on top of its contents . |
| 25 | Had it not been for Pam 's voice cajoling him onward and upward , he would have given up the struggle . |
| 26 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 27 | Add a small local earthquake and most men would have given up the ghost . |
| 28 | The delight of the Gloucester supporters was in no way diminished by the fact that Barnes had missed three easy kicks at goal , any one of which would have wrapped up the game for Bath . |
| 29 | The dead cetaceans , predators at the very top of the maritime food chain , would have picked up the toxins from shellfish and smaller animals which accumulate pollutants , Lenghaus said . |
| 30 | You would have picked up the parcel and you would have delivered it yourself . |