Example sentences of "would have [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So er , at the moment they 're saying all I can see is that er , we would have to use up the whole of our balance , that 's sixteen thousand and the twenty four thousand arrears .
2 She would have to give up the Pizza Eater .
3 Once his identity was known , he would have to give up the singing .
4 However , in the meantime it was a daunting thought that if I took promotion I would have to give up the job in which I was most happy .
5 The company could n't foresee great success or they would have tied up the band for years by way of contract options .
6 when the reactor was left hot on that July morning , heat would have crept up the metal to the condenser and melted the crystals , letting tetrachlorobenzene flow back into the reactor and lie in a concentrated layer on top of its contents .
7 Had it not been for Pam 's voice cajoling him onward and upward , he would have given up the struggle .
8 At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager .
9 Add a small local earthquake and most men would have given up the ghost .
10 If the Government wanted to have an effective environmental policy , it would have to put up the money .
11 The delight of the Gloucester supporters was in no way diminished by the fact that Barnes had missed three easy kicks at goal , any one of which would have wrapped up the game for Bath .
12 The dead cetaceans , predators at the very top of the maritime food chain , would have picked up the toxins from shellfish and smaller animals which accumulate pollutants , Lenghaus said .
13 You would have picked up the parcel and you would have delivered it yourself .
14 But Faye and Roberta — well , they are n't middle class , to put it mildly , but surely they — yes , they would have picked up the know-how , the expertise , so if they did n't get things straight , it is because they did n't want to .
15 Be interesting , of course , if fire cover were withdrawn , because then they would have to rustle up the R.A.F. crews from Brize Norton who would n't know their big toes from their elbows when it came to plutonium and highly enriched uranium and chemical explosive .
16 Thomas has had to endure three months of misery , the worst of his career , after the collapse of a £3 million move to Blackburn Rovers which would have set up the Crystal Palace midfielder for life .
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