Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established .
2 In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time .
3 And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater .
4 Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ?
5 Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time .
6 Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season .
7 Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him .
8 The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage .
9 For it was a mistake by the giant Eachus which transformed the game , gave Glenavon the breakthrough they needed and an upsurge in confidence to sweep to a victory they had wrapped up by half time .
10 The glass used up to that time had had a very poor ‘ memory ’ .
11 ‘ We have a divorce law which allows marriages to be broken up after less time than the run of an average HP agreement , ’ Mr Field said .
12 Anyone who withdraws more than net interest or pledges the Tessa as security for a loan immediately loses the tax exemption and has to pay tax on all interest credited up to that time as though it were income arising during the year when the withdrawal or pledge took place .
13 I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason .
14 The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit .
15 Large generic social services departments , which arose from the proposals from the Seebohm Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services ( 1968 ) were set up at this time .
16 And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext .
17 No doubt he would be woken up in good time to go to church .
18 It is not a great idea for us to be split up at this time . ’
19 KEITH Pringle had split up with long time girlfriend Leanne Rees on several occasions .
20 ‘ It 's gone up since last time , ’ I replied .
21 It had gone up in that time .
22 After this , I still found the problems of pragmatics a challenge , requiring the revision of the whole approach to language ( and particularly meaning ) which I had taken up to that time .
23 Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time .
24 But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time .
25 Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox .
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