Example sentences of "have [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has picked up Technically Elite Concepts Inc 's Net/Pod , which enables DECmcc operators to determine local area network usage patterns and detect network problems before they lead to failures ; the combination monitors local and remote segments simultaneously . |
| 2 | Some MOX fuel has been made — the lack of an economic rationale has never stopped the nuclear industry trying things — but as yet it has used up only 12.5 tonnes of plutonium . |
| 3 | Genetic engineering , in the last five years , has thrown up far bolder visions and far darker threats . |
| 4 | John has clocked up over 20 years service on most S.A.R . |
| 5 | Olney has snapped up just three goals but Royle reckons the partnership is going to prove extremely fruitful . |
| 6 | I 'd given up about three weeks before but I was ready to beg from him . |
| 7 | ‘ If I did n't know it was impossible , I 'd swear you 'd cooked up this little plot deliberately . ’ |
| 8 | Alas , one knows only too well that if Life magazine had had to cough up just one dollar for every time one has oneself cried ‘ Eureka ’ , or its golfing counterpart , that American publication would have been bled dry . |
| 9 | I 'll have to come up there one Monday night and watch him play moosh |
| 10 | I 'm gon na have to pop up there one week with you . |
| 11 | We will have gone up there three times out of four . |
| 12 | I 'll have to get up tonight fucking loads of work to do . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've given up too many things in the past and I intend to hang on to every penny that the sale of this house fetches . |
| 14 | I 've rung up about ninety miles so far . ’ |
| 15 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 16 | He had sold Chapeltoun House in Ayrshire , which he had built up over 10 years , and was looking to invest in another business . |
| 17 | A tooth abscess had built up over 24 hrs and had left the patient without sleep for a night , it was very clearly Belladonna given the nature of the pain and the characteristic worse for lying . |
| 18 | I had got up early that morning and done my best to make myself look presentable . |
| 19 | Her concern now was how she was going to cover the syllabus since she had used up so much time on these practical activities . |
| 20 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 21 | I had to get up early this morning . |
| 22 | I have to go up there some time , to find out about the Oyster Festival . ’ |
| 23 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
| 24 | Some biochemists have built up quite elaborate blueprints for forms of life utterly different from our own . |
| 25 | This image is eagerly developed by the popular press , which almost daily produces the most ridiculous and exaggerated accounts of the tiny minority of bankrupts who have run up extremely large debts . |
| 26 | A special mention for Ah-lah Towns : during the course of ten league matches she and her parents have ended up only eight points short of her maximum of 630 points . |
| 27 | Although some of them have clocked up nearly forty years service , they 'll get no redundancy pay from the company , and their pensions have disappeared . |