Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment he would have given up every moment of his past and future freedom to have her at his side . |
| 2 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 3 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 4 | ‘ So do I. We 've had the spy-glass trained on his approach bearing and they 'd have picked up an explosion for sure . ’ |
| 5 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 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 | Essentially , they were administrators , who would have built up a following among other administrators who supported their attitudes and often owed their careers to them . |
| 8 | Little wonder , in a sense , that so many children died in early infancy , or that those who survived would have built up a set of antibodies we might well envy . |
| 9 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The UK 's Clean Air Acts , which forced many homes to replace coal-burning fires with smokeless fuel , gas or electric versions , may have cleaned up the smog from out cities , but the utilitarian heaters and radiators that replaced those fires seemed to take some of the cheer from our lives . |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody else could have thought up a trick like that ! |
| 13 | The company could n't foresee great success or they would have tied up the band for years by way of contract options . |
| 14 | As you can see I have set up a set of equations which can be summarized in the following formulae : |
| 15 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 16 | He must have put up a bit of a struggle , but they were a persuasive bunch , those women , and the two nans in alliance were practically irresistible . |
| 17 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 18 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
| 19 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |