Example sentences of "have [verb] up [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tranmere 's form has picked up of late … they could pose a real threat tomorrow … |
| 2 | ‘ There is one thing which nobody has picked up on yet , ’ confides Alex late in the evening . |
| 3 | ‘ The next generation which has grown up over here and understands what their children have to go through will handle them much , much better , ’ Cecil Williams speculated . |
| 4 | Within 40 years , that figure has shot up to almost 80 million tonnes . |
| 5 | However , the independence that HMI has had up to now has been deeply embarrassing to the Government . |
| 6 | The RISC-based — R3000 or R3000A presumably , since that is what it has used up to now — XfaceC or XfC , is designed to bring colour graphics capabilities to users that require a compact , high resolution , easily transportable X terminal . |
| 7 | This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost . |
| 8 | Its proposals will make what has happened up to now look like a day out at the seaside . |
| 9 | It 's often more exciting not to preplan what 's going to happen in the scene , but we do need to know what has happened up to now . |
| 10 | Since Chapter 10 was written , the American political scientist Robert Axelrod ( working partly in collaboration with W. D. Hamilton , whose name has cropped up on so many pages of this book ) , has taken the idea of reciprocal altruism on in exciting new directions . |
| 11 | But Mansell is no less than thirty-nine seconds up on him , which means he has to make up at least a second a lap and preferably more . |
| 12 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |
| 13 | It does involve some careful circuit-building but anyone who has been following the series and has managed up to now will be able to build this system successfully . |
| 14 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 15 | It also involved us in playing ‘ When the Saints ’ ( which we 'd resisted up to then ) for the two policemen who caught us parked on a double yellow line . |
| 16 | What a wonderful prospect for piano buffs who for far too long have had to put up with hurriedly performed and inadequately recorded Vox recordings from the young Michael Ponti and others in a ragbag assortment of concerti with ‘ mix and match ’ orchestras and conductors . |
| 17 | Because it should have healed up by now . |
| 18 | The only means he has of doing that is by accepting new clause S. He will have to come up with very convincing arguments to persuade any Hon. Member that he can not accept it , but it is framed in the most uncontentious way anyone could imagine . |
| 19 | It is admitted that the gradings assigned to the respective countries have been done on a subjective basis and that different observers might well have come up with somewhat different rankings . |
| 20 | They were n't alone ; and then the next thought was that Sandy must have come up from below and was now standing on the quay , but then that thought died as what he 'd taken for her shadow came out from under the stairway . |
| 21 | ( Not , by the way , that I have my heart particularly set on a boy but , having grown up with only brothers , I do n't quite know what the female clichés look like . ) |
| 22 | And in quieter side streets , where there is a potential disturbance of local residents , customers will have to drink up by 12.30am . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose I should have said up to now , ’ Mark replied disarmingly . |
| 24 | She may have hung up by now . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You can go and bail ‘ im out round noon , ’ said Granpa. ’ ‘ e should have sobered up by then . ’ |
| 26 | Saturn your ruler is in exceptionally mood now so it is likely that you will have to put up with rather spartan conditions but you know how much is at stake for the future so you are happy to do without |
| 27 | ‘ He should have woken up by now . ’ |
| 28 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 29 | Toll charges for lorries using the Severn Bridge went up by more than 100% 3 weeks ago and road experts believe traffic in Gloucestershire may have gone up by as much as a third as drivers look for a detour . |
| 30 | So here it 's something very like that I finished up with I 've if I 'd started off with that I would have finished up with twice what |