Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] up on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the company does prove its case , it is still not clear whether it would escape the sanctions threatened by the US against European telecommunications products and services — mainly because the US has not firmed up on what action it will take . |
| 2 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 3 | He has not given up on health care . |
| 4 | China has now tightened up on the access of social scientists to rural areas . |
| 5 | YOUR article suggesting the Queen has now given up on Charles and Diana being the next king and queen of England was fascinating . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | He has n't shown up on any of the ferry company computers , or any of the airline ones , for that matter . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd better check up on him . ’ |
| 10 | So I said : ‘ Well , you 'd better check up on it . ’ |
| 11 | Peter Holland Tyne Tees reporter : ‘ I 've been with TTTV in Middlesbrough for 18 years so my feelings are the merger should sort out the wasteful nonsense we 've had there doubling up on news stories . ’ |
| 12 | Yer just 'ave ter ease up on yer tidyin' up , or yer 'll drive 'im right roun ’ the twist . |
| 13 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 14 | He had better catch up on Elinor 's latest batch of instructions . |
| 15 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
| 16 | Some of those problems had already shown up on the print-outs , let alone from the drivers . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Even then , Sarah had not given up on her marriage . |
| 19 | The early Earth-people had not given up on anything ; they had conquered and explored and invented and they had made a marvellous and memorable world . |
| 20 | Heaven send they had not given up on her ! |
| 21 | It looked as if Old Hubbard had been drinking again and had not shown up on Tuesday . |
| 22 | He had not come up on deck when the P.L.A . |
| 23 | York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area . |
| 24 | ‘ You had best come up on deck if you are to be sick . |
| 25 | Police numbers had doubled , two ambulances had somehow squeezed up on the hill , and the drivers and passengers were out of their Glories , milling around in confusion . |
| 26 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |
| 27 | Doreen Wranklin could n't understand it as she had always paid up on time . |
| 28 | ‘ So … so I 'll send them , shall I ? ’ she asked , holding her breath , bracing herself , waiting for the blunt , ‘ You do that ! ’ the violent , ‘ Go to Hell ! ’ the indifferent dismissal , or , even worse , the continuing silence which meant he had really hung up on her . |
| 29 | And the fact that quite a lot of people had n't turned up on a certain day or that sort of thing . |
| 30 | I had n't picked up on it , and he had no hand at all in your coming to work for me . |