Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
| 2 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 3 | Actually it was lucky that we went right over all three lanes of the motorway , there was a lot of people behind us , but luckily they saw the tyres , and they backed off , but we could have finished up in a real |
| 4 | Lydia , picturing Hywel 's dark eyes , thought that he 'd probably have put up with a great deal rather than have strangers in his house . |
| 5 | None of them has been met , yet today he says that he would have signed up to a single currency without any opt-out clause . |
| 6 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 7 | Otherwise , with all those emotions swirling around inside , I might have ended up in a mental hospital banging my head against a wall , screaming ‘ mama' . ’ |
| 8 | Many of them must have ended up in a British soldier 's mess-tin . |
| 9 | Wo n't get picked up as a suspected drunk-driver , he 'll look like a rep getting an early start . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That 's why we did not get tied up to a long deal before . |