Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 2 | And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night . |
| 3 | No I would n't , cos I might have picked up a different thing . |
| 4 | She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Granny 's little extortion racket must have built up a small fortune for you . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No market advisers could ever have dreamed up a better ploy because Laura was only enunciating theories she had always believed in . |
| 9 | Wealth , power , dames : Daine could n't have Dreamed up a better situation for himself in the City if he had been trying . |
| 10 | He is the sort of young player who should be encouraged ’ He believes Salisbury could have struck up a deadly partnership with Phil Tufnell . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He might have put up a good show the other day , but that was because he was frightened . |
| 13 | No , I 'd have thought he 'd have put up a better show than that . |
| 14 | 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 … |