Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information from the French , American and Russian experts who helped set up Iraq 's air defences will have helped in their defeat or circumvention — a jammer which knows how the enemy radar ‘ thinks ’ has a great advantage . |
| 2 | ‘ We got fed up waiting , ’ explained Vanessa . |
| 3 | Until now , he 'd given up hope that such a burgeoning time would ever come again . |
| 4 | Of course , he 'd given up medicine to pursue comedy , but he was absolutely at his best when caring for others . |
| 5 | He 'd given up woodwork , having driven a splinter through his thumbnail . |
| 6 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 7 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 8 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 9 | I think you had a little bit of a soft spot for Poole did n't you , and you 'd have quite liked to have gone there and a little bit perhaps disappointed when you heard that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox ? |
| 10 | Well not disappointed that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox because obviously they 're going to need a very strong side if they 're going to win anything so erm you know , with guys like Marvin around , then it 's got to be a good idea , you know , they 've obviously made a big jump there to grab someone they think 's going to make a difference . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of the boys would n't believe John , he 'd made up stories before , but all the girls believed me . |
| 12 | He 'd soaked up atmosphere , as he had intended — my God he had . |
| 13 | Yes , of course — how silly of me , they 'd gone up market now , and it was funeral directors ' suppliers I needed . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd taken up cookery ! |
| 15 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 16 | After she 'd cleared up lunch she hoisted Ethel 's huge ox heart out of its water on to the chopping board . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 18 | ‘ I got 'eld up wiv one o' the geezers in the Kings Arms . |
| 19 | A friend had plucked up courage to ask the Sisters of Mercy for food and the Sisters insisted on visiting the family , where they found women making matchboxes in a house infected with smallpox . |
| 20 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
| 22 | We had given up hope , then suddenly there you were , a little stranger … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 24 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 25 | She said : ‘ We had given up hope and by the time the precinct opened again we had all gone home . ’ |
| 26 | One afternoon , after she had given up hope , stirring aïoli on the doorstep , Frederica heard the crunch of wheels on stones and saw the motorbike winding down the cliff with its two insect-heads swaying in harmony above it . |
| 27 | Finally , when many had given up hope and the liner was nearing Europe , the Belgian government announced that it would admit 200 of the passengers . |
| 28 | Mrs Burrows nursed Betty through a dangerous illness when the doctor had given up hope on her . |
| 29 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 30 | If anyone had given up hope in life , it was I. ’ |