Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 . |
| 2 | She has opened me up to the world of tennis , although I do admit that I only take an interest because of her . |
| 3 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Not so for Locke , you will recall that so f the way Locke sets it up is a legitimate civil society is first established by a social contract and that creates a community , a body politic , which has a capacity to act , and I 'll put a little question mark over that shortly , erm and that community then as a separate act sets up a government which , because it has set it up as a trust , erm it can change or dismiss pretty well at will . |
| 5 | In fact it has followed it up with an absolutely excellent study pack which has been very widely used within the church . |
| 6 | Kersey called after him : ‘ Shaw has fixed us up at the hotel on the prom — is that all right ? ’ |
| 7 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 8 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 9 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 10 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 11 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 12 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 13 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 14 | But he could remember the sound of her voice on the phone that morning , when he 'd called her up from the School , too well . |
| 15 | And we 'd started him up with a little donkey engine and a saw bench , started him up making bundles of firewood up . |
| 16 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 17 | She stood up : ‘ No , I did n't ! — So he could n't have done it , could he ? — And before you say owt , he could n't have looked her up in the phone book 'cos she 's ex-directory ! — And anyway , he told me to go round there today and get her to put her money in the bank . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 19 | You could have warmed it up with a hot water bottle or a heat pad do n't leave it there with the baby in it , but you can certainly warm the bed first , you can warm the baby 's clothes , keep them in the airing cupboard , or lots of houses around here have Agas do n't they ? |
| 20 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 21 | I thought she might have made it up as an excuse for coming round to see me . |
| 22 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |
| 23 | If he improves over the next 3–4 years and lasts until he 's 30 , then you will have to put him up alongside the other 2 . |
| 24 | you 'll have to put them up on the ceiling |
| 25 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 26 | Surely the place would have the mental institution would have set you up with a home or something when you left ? |
| 27 | Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective . |
| 28 | It was a great disappointment to me that when having set it up with an invitation couple or three years ago , about three members turned up , and I think that was very regrettable . |
| 29 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |
| 30 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |