Example sentences of "'s [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , er a gentlemen , like yourself , who 's looked after by his young son , by a younger son anyway , and he he 's given up his work to look after his father . |
| 2 | And she 's given up her one night a week in the W which |
| 3 | He 's given up smoking as well has n't he ? |
| 4 | She 's given up smoking and casual sex now . |
| 5 | so I got , I got to know how to use them by then then then erm while I 've got older dad got another piece of ground what he 's given up now |
| 6 | He has n't smoked , he 's given up smoking has n't he ? |
| 7 | club and have a fag , her mum 's given up smoking , so Joanne 's really worried now oh |
| 8 | She 's given up now , she just does it for friends now the you |
| 9 | he 's given up his practice , well he 's not , he 's still |
| 10 | Well se , she 's now , she 's given up , they 've got a paper shop at Blaby I think . |
| 11 | Yeah I mean he 's , he 's given up |
| 12 | He 's given up now . |
| 13 | he 's given up er |
| 14 | Chloride is the is when it 's joined up with something chlorine is the element . |
| 15 | Cos I 'm gon na tape it again cos my thing 's clapped up and all . . |
| 16 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 17 | aha , Richard 's cheered up , he was a bit miserable |
| 18 | I thought maybe he was getting the same as Richard and Bryony had had , but he 's cheered up . |
| 19 | Erm , I do n't like it er , not for particularly any religious reason but for the fact that the church is purpose-built for weddings and a lot of hotels are n't , so you get the girl with the ball gown , spent hundreds on it , and she 's squeezed up sometimes and nobody can see her ! |
| 20 | Yes he 's caught up with two more cars |
| 21 | asthma 's wound up , they reckon they 've found a cure for that |
| 22 | She 's wound up |
| 23 | Oh he 's genned up then is n't he ? |
| 24 | Do you see , you see how it 's misted up again , well in the morning 's it 's absolutely murder ! |
| 25 | No , it 's alright cos someone 's rung up from home , say be in eight o'clock , so she wants to do something . |
| 26 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 27 | The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning . |
| 28 | The rest of it 's picked up by us anyway . |
| 29 | Erm , I take the view that we ought to try and make the existing arrangements work and we are fast approaching a very key point er in that process erm I understand that on Thursday , er securities and investments board , the board will consider the er P I A , proposed P I A prospectus and that er within a week or so we shall all be able to read it and to look at it erm and the key point , which really is arises out of what we 're discussing tonight , the key point is what regulatory framework should the P I A place on intermediaries and on er life assurance companies , pension funds , financial advisors generally er in order to ensure that the public interest is protected and that if there are potential frauds erm such as the Levitt case er that we talked about earlier and I think the honourable member in sort of by implication in terms of er community service , er punishments that he referred to , er had also that in mind , er just what should we do to ensure that if there is malpractice and fraud , it 's picked up very , very quickly . |
| 30 | Er , right , so stylistically she has erm , she 's picked up , and she 's actually picked up the patterning as well of that , whereas in the middle English one , it was , th the sight , the odour , the touch , no , it was the smell , the touch , she has used an infini an infinitive of a verb , which gets away from the problem , that we do n't use nouns for these things . |