Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 2 | Bourgeois , even liberal , France , would never have given up without a fight . |
| 3 | Connors said the guy must have curled up into a ball and hidden in a waste-basket . |
| 4 | But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all . |
| 5 | The way the ground just curled up at the edges until you lost sight of it , we could n't have crept up on a hunk of soya . ’ |
| 6 | Expenditure on the programme will have built up to a minimum of £200,000 a year by 1986/87 . |
| 7 | How could you have finished up with an answer like sixteen it 's a bit like integration this where we 're working backwards . |
| 8 | Immigrant doctors in Britain may silently have put up with a lot of it in the past , but those born and educated in Britain have every right to expect that they will be judged strictly on merit . |
| 9 | Dozens of men with hand tools may have taken up to a year to dig out the brook banks and build arches and canal on top . |
| 10 | Might have ended up with a house like this , ’ he added with a laugh . |
| 11 | The ankle muscles were holding the foot in an almost normal position — oblivious to the fact that the joints had nothing to rest on , that this was a classic case of a boy who would normally have ended up with a club foot . |
| 12 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 13 | Oddly enough , Stirling might well have ended up as a brigadier with an even larger command . |
| 14 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 15 | With hindsight , it was probably the best thing that could have happened to him , otherwise he would no doubt have ended up as a Bomber Pilot , and no-one knows better than I what a dead-end occupation that was . |
| 16 | Had it not been for human kindess he would have ended up in a pork pie . |
| 17 | You 'd probably have ended up in an asylum . ’ |
| 18 | She was so kind when I was orphaned , she always made sure I was fed by organizing a rota of other Girls ' mothers who took me in until I was fourteen ; otherwise I would have ended up in an orphanage . |
| 19 | I let myself get caught up in a legend — a fairy-tale . |
| 20 | If you put them in the dustbin they will eventually find their way to a land fill site where some unfortunate animal might get caught up in a piece of it . |
| 21 | The Russians courteously declined , saying they could n't get mixed up in an issue that did n't concern them . |
| 22 | We 'd like to release Family as a joint effort with them , if we do n't get signed up to a record company first ! ’ |