Example sentences of "have [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been told you 're unhurt , but I see you 've picked up plenty of gore . |
| 2 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | ‘ I see they 've caught up with him in Huddersfield , ’ Ma said , ‘ that prisoner . ’ |
| 5 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |
| 6 | Darren Pearce 's Sapphire 1.8 LX has racked up a remarkable 112,000 miles in four years without missing a beat — and without regular servicing |
| 7 | But rather than fade quietly from view , Colin Angus has racked up a hit album , ‘ Boss Drum ’ , hit singles and , with ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ , orchestrated a good old-fashioned tabloid fuss into the bargain . |
| 8 | The pupils at the £3,465-a-term school , boys and girls aged 16 and over , are to be interviewed by police at their homes as the school has broken up for Easter . |
| 9 | As the cricket world reeled at yesterday 's shock news that Gooch 's 16-year marriage to wife Brenda has broken up , Test and county chiefs expressed their amazement — and drew up contingency plans . |
| 10 | - Housing allocation policies have no place for men once a family has broken up , so hostels for the homeless become their place of first and last resort . |
| 11 | For example , the phrase " their marriage has broken up " refers to the disintegration of the domestic group rather than to the termination of contractual relations through divorce . |
| 12 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 13 | His marriage has broken up , he rarely sees his teenage daughter and he faces a bleak future . |
| 14 | Ooh gosh and me dad yes , he used to do er , er , er , just a , he did n't do , do too many but he , he had , like a sort of a push truck like , you know and he has to go up and that , that only round not too far and he , he like to do it I think more . |
| 15 | that both Gethwyn and Russell sorted out er who up on on those extremes that you get in a group that , that maybe feel they re that they really have nothing to , hardly anything to do with us they 've do n't receive ministry and why should that be , and after be asked each year , has to go up ? |
| 16 | Yeah , has to go up |
| 17 | But I mean Alan has to go up to London ! |
| 18 | But they they , that was n't accurate because it has to go up , to have fifteen kilometres a second . |
| 19 | So that means that the productivity has to go up , presumably . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Next has plucked up one of Sun 's men , hiring Bob Lawton , an Interactive Systems Corp legacy , away from Solaris-on-Intel product marketing to be its NextStep 80486 program manager , a newly created position . |
| 21 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 22 | When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction , one has to sit up and take notice . |
| 23 | Two special spending programmes , worth ¥23.9 trillion ( $114 billion ) , announced in the past year , have helped ward off full-blown recession , and the government has propped up the stockmarket by shovelling post-office savings money into it . |
| 24 | She has to carry up the children , her shopping and any other goods coming into the household . |
| 25 | JUST A sample of the full frontal lobe assault that Japan has hidden up its kimono . |
| 26 | And why is it whenever you choose to roll out the seventy foot or more of polythene , which has humped up your overdraft considerably , a perfect tranquil morning is spoilt by a freak hurricane , sheet with a dozen or more pairs of hands held fast disappears over Stickford way and at that moment , more people drive up the Bank than would normally pass in a week . |
| 27 | Forest assistant manager Ron Fenton said : ‘ The knee has swollen up , and it necessitated him going to hospital . |
| 28 | Arthur Andersen has joined up with Asahi Shinwa , Ernst & Young 's Japanese affiliate and the second largest auditing firm in the country , in an arrangement that will probably result in a merger . |
| 29 | ‘ I just ca n't watch myself , ’ he said in Santander yesterday where he has joined up with the England team to watch tonight 's match against Spain . |
| 30 | Now The People has joined up with Vernons to let you know ! |