Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 2 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 3 | I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies . |
| 4 | Mild defects only shown up on sophisticated psychological testing are common in people with AIDS , or who are unwell as a result of HIV infection . |
| 5 | I was just catching up on some paperwork . |
| 6 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 7 | The Battalion was finally wound up on 7 August 1946 , and the Works lost its close association with the 1st Bucks , of some 69 years ' standing , for in 1947 , in the new TA formation , it became a Light-Anti-Aircraft Regiment , no part of which was raised at Wolverton . |
| 8 | He saw the purpose of it to be for advisers to gain a general view of the school — not to pick up on bad points . |
| 9 | Okay with education of children , does that not crop up on this ? |
| 10 | Is , is , is that different to any other land law before , is well is , is this a new idea or is it just picking up on other |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not going up on one of those things ! ’ |
| 12 | If I could just pick up on one point erm and that was related to the the two different types of inner relief road that that was proposed . |
| 13 | Er can I just pick up on one or two points er Ron . |
| 14 | The latter is a very slow growing starter and is happier without peat at planting time — in fact , it grows best for me in builder 's rubble and when it does get going soon catches up on lost time . |
| 15 | You 've already lost me one race because you 're still hung up on that business at Ascot . |
| 16 | ‘ Still hung up on that , are you ? |
| 17 | The National Curriculum English Working Group was formally set up on 29 April 1988 by the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales to advise on attainment targets , programmes of study and associated assessment arrangements for English in the National Curriculum for the period of compulsory schooling . |
| 18 | The community is looking at possibly following up on this initial media enterprise by becoming involved in the sponsorship of drama and the visual arts . |
| 19 | The authorities also tightened up on illegal emigration — the coastal areas were patrolled and hiding-places for illegal emigrants were found in central Funchal ; those responsible were arrested , tried and sentenced . |
| 20 | Having covered buckles and brooches , I now intend to examine the various bronze fittings and implements that should also turn up on Romano-British sites . |
| 21 | The Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on Intel Corp iAPX-86-based machines ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 22 | Meantime the Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on iAPX-86-based machines ( CI No 2,133 ) . |
| 23 | But are you really clued up on modern skincare ? |
| 24 | As the best PR people try to understand their audience before they try to sell something , we must assume that Mr Heseltine is even now reading up on anti-nuclear propaganda . |
| 25 | This section of the road is continuously built up on one side and contains ten residential access points . |
| 26 | • Do n't give up on artificial respiration if the child does n't respond quickly . |
| 27 | Autoquote , regarded as a world leader in the field of accident repair software systems , is described as being so comprehensive that if one coughs in one of Heggie 's workshops it immediately shows up on one of the system 's screens with a cost attached . |
| 28 | He has n't shown up on any of the ferry company computers , or any of the airline ones , for that matter . |
| 29 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 30 | Very simple throw in and er I thought Milwall just were n't geared up on that one at all . |