Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 2 | I 'd almost given up hope that you 'd ever see me as a girl … a woman . |
| 3 | But he revealed today he 'd never given up hope of signing the defender turned striker despite the breakdown of the original negotiations two months ago . |
| 4 | I got really fed up hearing it and thought that one more repetition would send me screaming down the street ! |
| 5 | Many , he said , were convinced that they had had no managerial experience , yet they had successfully brought up children , run a home , and far more . |
| 6 | The poor man had obviously given up hope and I could tell by his apathetic manner that he had n't much faith in this latest ploy . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she answered , hiding beneath a pleasant smile of her own as she went to the desk , that her heartbeats had suddenly picked up speed . |
| 8 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |
| 9 | By resorting to a money-lender it became more difficult to conceal their embarrassment — than if they had merely run up bills with retailers . |
| 10 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 11 | And Wolves should have had a second penalty after Regis had apparently set up Kelly but Sandford 's challenge went unnoticed by Mr Harrison , Stoke escaped and Wolves were denied the chance to regain the lead . |
| 12 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 13 | Management budgets for clinicians based on agreed workload and service targets were such " a vital management tool " that the Inquiry had already set up demonstration projects in four districts . |
| 14 | They had already set up Exhibition clubs so that working men could pay in small sums a week towards the total cost of an excursion ticket which included accommodation at the Ranelagh Club — bed and a hearty Victorian breakfast — for two shillings ; the fare was five shillings . |
| 15 | Cruise had already picked up £8 million and Moore was paid Pounds 1.5 million for A Few Good Men . |
| 16 | Hordes of grumbly Leeds fans left one place which had just shut up shop . |
| 17 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 18 | Niklaus had just swarmed up Resurrection , taking a bit of a flyer in the process , being into the British way of things , and was obviously having a great day out . |
| 19 | The article said the chairman of TV London had just taken up residence in the castle . |
| 20 | There was a lot of teasing and we had soon thought up nicknames for each other . |
| 21 | France and Italy had also put up candidates for the post . |
| 22 | She had married late , at a time she had almost given up hope of finding a husband . |
| 23 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |
| 24 | She had almost given up hope when she saw Meredith arm in arm with Grace and Bunny stepping off the kerb outside the Women 's Hospital . |
| 25 | By the time I had almost given up hope , a telegram arrived . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 27 | She had almost given up drink . |
| 28 | Finding no way other than the direct question , he put it , and watched Yeo , unruffled , confirm that she had indeed put up £100,000 . |
| 29 | The meeting was held to contain and deal with the mobilization of an estimated 400-500 re-contras ( disbanded contras who had again taken up arms ) in the northern Jinotega province . |
| 30 | It was in a fold of high ground on the northern borders of the vale that William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had recently taken up residence in a red-brick mansion called Racedown Lodge , a house combining Georgian elegance and merchant stolidity , and quite likely to be , as tradition asserts , the original of Sir Walter Elliot 's Kellynch Hall in Jane Austen 's Persuasion . |