Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Now she would have given up every lingering resentment , every long and bitter hatred , to have the boy back at Adam 's banker , humbly cutting stone .
2 If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them .
3 And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night .
4 No I would n't , cos I might have picked up a different thing .
5 She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully .
6 He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty .
7 ‘ Granny 's little extortion racket must have built up a small fortune for you . ’
8 One of the most important limitations on statutory safeguards is the insistence that , to qualify for most rights , you must have built up a specified period of continuous employment .
9 No market advisers could ever have dreamed up a better ploy because Laura was only enunciating theories she had always believed in .
10 Wealth , power , dames : Daine could n't have Dreamed up a better situation for himself in the City if he had been trying .
11 Their movements would have kicked up the fine silt carpet on the bottom of the lake , obscuring vision .
12 He is the sort of young player who should be encouraged ’ He believes Salisbury could have struck up a deadly partnership with Phil Tufnell .
13 There was no question but that the army , the Lebanese Forces militia , and a whole new wave of volunteers would have put up a desperate resistance .
14 He might have put up a good show the other day , but that was because he was frightened .
15 No , I 'd have thought he 'd have put up a better show than that .
16 During the subsequent exploration of New Zealand and Australia , Green was , in Cook 's words , ‘ indefatigable in making and calculating these observations [ for latitude and longitude ] which otherwise must have taken up a great deal of my time …
17 Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had .
18 I mean , I 'm n this is no criticism because you , you could n't er , you 'd have taken up the whole hour if you 'd included examples .
19 For the first time in warfare , motorized trucks were the sole means of transport , for to have used horses would have choked up the whole movement of supplies .
20 ‘ These would have blown up the entire gold and diamond market , ’ the bomb squad chief , Nandkumar Chowgule , told reporters after the area had been cleared .
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