Example sentences of "have [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | We will have gone up there three times out of four . |
| 8 | I 'll have to get up tonight fucking loads of work to do . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I 've rung up about ninety miles so far . ’ |
| 11 | He had sold Chapeltoun House in Ayrshire , which he had built up over 10 years , and was looking to invest in another business . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some biochemists have built up quite elaborate blueprints for forms of life utterly different from our own . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |