Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last ten years the BDA has successfully taken up many individual cases of discrimination . |
| 2 | Unit has already built up valuable experience in engineering by setting up its own production line for the pallets business with in-house expertise . |
| 3 | Work on these lines has already cleared up many of the mysteries of the Pleistocene and holds more hope of a final elucidation than any other method known . |
| 4 | From the financial services market , Sherwood picked off Consort Data Ltd ( CI No 2,017 ) , with its personal computer stockbroking systems , for £250,000 — and has already notched up eight sales . |
| 5 | This year it has already notched up another 13 murders . |
| 6 | Chris Vaughan , a management consultant from Farnham , Surrey , bought his just before last Christmas and has already clocked up thousands of miles . |
| 7 | The Heritage Run ‘ 92 , which has already signed up top marathoner Steve Brace , will start and finish in the Park . |
| 8 | AT&T has already signed up several big American customers , including Motorola , Goodyear and Unisys . |
| 9 | Ray has also set up High Rise Aquatics to market plants and accessories . |
| 10 | SunSoft has also lined up several large US distributors namely Ingram Micro Inc , Merisel Inc , Tech Data Corp , Access Graphics Inc and Gates F/A Distribution Inc to peddle it and says it has authorised over 2,000 US resellers to handle the product . |
| 11 | SunSoft has also lined up several large American distributors namely Ingram Micro , Merisel , Tech Data , Access Graphics and Gates F/A to peddle it and says it has authorised over 2,000 US resellers to handle the product . |
| 12 | He has also stumped up some of the cash ( together they contributed 30 per cent of the total package , the rest was provided by banks ) . |
| 13 | Mr Sharif has now set up ten ‘ reconciliation committees ’ to negotiate peace with opposition parties , including Miss Bhutto 's Pakistan People 's Party . |
| 14 | Well today , poll tax has now gone up one pound , but for the old fogies it 's gone down one pound |
| 15 | The government wanted to stop subsidising it by the end of 1991–92 , but has now given up that idea . |
| 16 | The Astra has now clocked up 17,300 miles and our time together is almost at an end . |
| 17 | The trust has now drawn up detailed plans and claims a living museum at Bletchley Park could attract at least 100,000 visitors every year . |
| 18 | Medical immigration from the European Community and elsewhere , which has previously made up any shortage of local graduates , is stable and unlikely to increase . |
| 19 | Anyone who has recently taken up some form of exercise will tell that it has brought them enhanced mental energy and concentration , the ability to sleep more deeply and a feeling of well-being . |
| 20 | ‘ As the other dressers have vanished , you 'd better stay up this end and make yourself very visible . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up quick . |
| 22 | well perhaps she 'll get round , I 'd better tidy up first then in case |
| 23 | For example : ‘ I 'd better get up bright and early today . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think there 's room in the lift for all you old pals , ’ Jonathan smiled hideously , ‘ we 'd best go up other ways . ’ |
| 25 | And he 'd also clocked up several more years on the operatic stage than she had . |
| 26 | At a Christmas assembly at Aachen in 837 , having carefully built up aristocratic and episcopal support , and secured the agreement of Pippin ( whose own ambitions in Francia now looked blighted ) and Louis the German , Louis solemnly conferred on Charles " a part of the regnum " , with the following boundaries : the greater part of the Belgic provinces , in other words , the whole of Frisia from the North Sea and Saxon frontier as far as the frontier of the Ripuarian Franks , and along the latter , the counties of Mulekewe , Ettra , Hamarlant and Maasgau ; then all the territory between the Meuse and Seine as far south as Burgundy , including Verdun ; and going from Burgundy , the counties of Toul , Ornois , Blois , Blaisois , Perthois , the two Bars [ i.e. Bar-le-Duc and Bar-sur-Aube ] , Brienne , Troyes , Auxerre , Sens , the Gâtinais , Melun , Etampes , the Pays de Châtres , and Paris ; then along the Seine to the Channel and up the coast as far as Frisia again : within these , all the bishoprics , abbacies , counties , fisclands , and all pertaining thereto . |
| 27 | By today 's deadline Green King had only picked up forty six per cent of Morland 's shares … |
| 28 | Well yesterday apparently he told her that she had better turn up this morning cos of her excuses . |
| 29 | Before the 1964–70 Labour government made it Department of Education and Science policy , a number of local authorities had already set up comprehensive schools . |
| 30 | I had already coughed up forty bucks at the door . |