Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 2 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 3 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 4 | The water really is n't that hot , usually , but my other one was fiddling with the boiler earlier — he must have turned up the thermostat . |
| 5 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 6 | My own present stance and the position of the boy in the bed must have thrown up the embroidered , tasselled triangle hanging in blue , white and gold on the chapel wall . |
| 7 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have to lock up the pages before seven , and I doubt Mike will be able to do more than meet the deadline . |
| 9 | People will puke up all over the place and since it 's your fault , you 'll have to clear up the mess . |
| 10 | This might have shored up the dollar for a time had the US balance of payments improved as expected . |
| 11 | Moisture from the inflated covers might have gingered up the pitch somewhat for the third day , and with the ball still quite new , England 's bowlers were clearly interested in a breakthrough . |
| 12 | Their conduct amounted to insulting behaviour ( it insulted the women ! ) which may have occasioned a breach of the peace ( the partners of the women might have beaten up the two male lovers ) . |
| 13 | Folly felt an urge to wash , as if the words had been printed in dark , inky type in the headline of a tabloid newspaper and her hands might have picked up the stain . |
| 14 | Keep him from chasing younger birds — if he could 've summoned up the energy . |
| 15 | So the chalk could have absorbed up the grease . |
| 16 | A COMPUTER blip could have messed up the statements of millions of credit card customers , it was revealed last night . |
| 17 | At one time you could have travelled up the Aspe valley by railway , and entered Spain through a tunnel five miles long under the final ridge . |
| 18 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 19 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |
| 20 | Well there 's the open , we could have gone up the . |
| 21 | Southend then enjoyed a revival but after 63 minutes Malkin could have tied up the points when set up by Aldridge but Sansome made an excellent save . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 24 | We could have harnessed up the goat-cart and come and fetched you . |
| 25 | I mean , I 'm n this is no criticism because you , you could n't er , you 'd have taken up the whole hour if you 'd included examples . |
| 26 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 27 | Blanche may have made up the prowling . |
| 28 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 29 | ‘ We think someone may have picked up the jeans innocently , and maybe now thinks it 's too late to come forward , ’ a Norfolk police spokesman said . |
| 30 | 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 . |