Example sentences of "have [verb] up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breakfast Car will probably have to go up a grade and go to slightly posher places . ’ |
| 2 | Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year . |
| 3 | And can I tell you , that if we 'd just done Covermaster , somebody could have picked up a point there . |
| 4 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 5 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 6 | I think I must have picked up a virus . |
| 7 | NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in . |
| 8 | And and there 's always the chance of getting it back at a later stage er but the whole market will have moved up a level . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But perhaps you 'll have to grow up a bit more before you realise that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody else could have thought up a trick like that ! |
| 13 | Desmond Clarke would no doubt have summoned up a helicopter to take the two naked ladies on a nationwide author tour and had them descending on bookshops by parachute . |
| 14 | It may be that the England management themselves will have to draw up a code of conduct in order to keep everyone happy . |
| 15 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 16 | Its place at the centre of government thinking was re-emphasised in April 1939 when the RCM was told that , henceforth , each guarantor would have to put up a deposit of £50 to support the cost of a child 's re-emigration . |
| 17 | Some people tend to take advantage of a placid nature — that is only human — so I realized that in order to prevent abuse of my personality I would have to put up a barrier to protect my inner self . |
| 18 | ( a ) Moving trust property abroad A non-domiciled settlor may have set up a settlement but the settled property may nevertheless be located in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | As you can see I have set up a set of equations which can be summarized in the following formulae : |
| 20 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll just have to get up a bit earlier , that 's all . ’ |
| 23 | ONE advantage for small countries in large empires is that they do not have to think up a defence policy : their armies do what they are told . |
| 24 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 25 | He snatched it up instinctively , as his ancestors might have snatched up a stone when faced with a marauding tiger . |