Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He must have put up a bit of a struggle , but they were a persuasive bunch , those women , and the two nans in alliance were practically irresistible . |
| 5 | I think I must have picked up a virus . |
| 6 | Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year . |
| 7 | While chatting with Allan in the Admin Block corridor about a snag which had emerged , one of the senior managers said ‘ We 'll have to set up an Improvement Team to solve it ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have to lock up the pages before seven , and I doubt Mike will be able to do more than meet the deadline . |
| 9 | But perhaps you 'll have to grow up a bit more before you realise that . ’ |
| 10 | People will puke up all over the place and since it 's your fault , you 'll have to clear up the mess . |
| 11 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He snatched it up instinctively , as his ancestors might have snatched up a stone when faced with a marauding tiger . |
| 14 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So the chalk could have absorbed up the grease . |
| 17 | A COMPUTER blip could have messed up the statements of millions of credit card customers , it was revealed last night . |
| 18 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 21 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | ‘ Nobody else could have thought up a trick like that ! |
| 25 | NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in . |
| 26 | And can I tell you , that if we 'd just done Covermaster , somebody could have picked up a point there . |
| 27 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 28 | We could have harnessed up the goat-cart and come and fetched you . |
| 29 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 30 | ‘ So do I. We 've had the spy-glass trained on his approach bearing and they 'd have picked up an explosion for sure . ’ |