Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was a good attempt but yeah you missed misled or confused then there could be several others I felt you could 've picked up that would be highlighting the second appointment that carried the whole process through |
| 2 | Peter Alliss might have given up competitive golf in the early 1970s but he still a formidable force out on the course . |
| 3 | The marriage must have broken up some time in 1980 . |
| 4 | The Tories may have shaken up British Telecom because they dislike a state-run monopoly that seems to care more for itself than its customers ; but the main impact on BT has little to do with monopolies or state ownership . |
| 5 | He could have wound up dead . |
| 6 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 7 | The truth is that some members of the Liverpool board had misgivings about the way Swansea were run and wondered if Toshack might have picked up bad habits . |
| 8 | But dogs can learn a lot by that age and may have picked up some very bad habits , so it is important that very basic training begins at eight weeks , and is increased in very gradual stages . |
| 9 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 10 | Benny will certainly have picked up some of these things to examine them , and she 'll have absorbed the stuff through her fingertips . ’ |
| 11 | From the same shop he could have picked up enough straps and buckles and ties to restrain King Kong . |
| 12 | After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk . |
| 13 | Rob Wainwright , who could well have picked up another four caps this season , has recovered from an Achilles tendon operation and hopes to turn out for the home XV , while David Hunter is at full-back for Selkirk . |
| 14 | It must have stirred up some memories for her , days of wine and roses , eh ? |
| 15 | Folly realised belatedly that she might have stirred up some trouble for her informant . |
| 16 | ‘ He ca n't have made up all that stuff about the army … or the train — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I should never have made up those stories about her , I know , and I 'm sorry , darling . |
| 18 | It 's erm if you 've used that lots and lots of times it may have used up all the . |
| 19 | You could do okay you could do that and then you would have used up all the oxygen and you 'd just have nitrogen left , but burning something in a liquid in liquid air is gon na be a bit awkward , it could n't be done . |
| 20 | Fears that the fast-talking Glaswegian may have used up all his best material during last week 's opener soon proved unfounded . |
| 21 | Just a bit left on her legs so the baby must have used up all if the baby carries on like this she 'll be anaemic I think . |
| 22 | I must have used up four different bags of potatoes in the down there . |
| 23 | It is quite possible that the expansion of the social services may have used up some of the labour that could have been absorbed by the manufacturing sector but there was no scarcity of labour as such in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 24 | It would have bought up all of USL last year if it could have got it , Novell executive vice president Kanwal Rikki previously told Unigram . |
| 25 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 26 | Their Kipling characteristics would surely have immediately attracted man 's attention , and he would soon have thought up other ways of increasing the frequency of such useful animals . |
| 27 | If one is brave enough to try the draft out on critical , expert colleagues , one can be reasonably sure that what emerges at the end will be free of double questions , ambiguities , leading questions , and so on , and the helpful colleagues , in pretending to be informants , will also probably have thought up some difficult-to-classify answers too . |
| 28 | He 'd have thought up some joke , or turned it to his advantage . |
| 29 | He was teasing her and , had he been anyone else , Ronni had no doubt she could have thought up some smart retort . |
| 30 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |