Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [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 | 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 ? |
| 19 | I thought she might have made it up as an excuse for coming round to see me . |
| 20 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |
| 21 | 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 ! ’ |
| 22 | Surely the place would have the mental institution would have set you up with a home or something when you left ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The young , untrained dog must have chased them up to the edge of the pit , where they fell to their death . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've given it up for the moment , ’ he said . |
| 27 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 28 | Or pay the repair bills when you 've crushed us up against a wall . ’ |
| 29 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 30 | You 've looked it up in the Titmarsh have you ? |