Example sentences of "they have [verb] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 2 | So that was what he had meant when they 'd met up again . |
| 3 | He 'd come round the night before after playing pool , and they 'd stayed up late , so today she is shattered . |
| 4 | I had everything in in the house any anything that they 'd brought up early beforehand . |
| 5 | And the driver wanted to get even more friendly with some exciting young women they 'd picked up earlier . |
| 6 | As the rain gradually died away , birds began to fight and squabble like fractious children just allowed out after being cooped up indoors ; but then they did n't have leaky roofs ; neither did they have to climb up there as soon as it was light to inspect the damage ; or have a meeting with Leo , the thought of which made her feel weak inside . |
| 7 | And then they 've grew up now . |
| 8 | Yes , getting through Newark er can be a bit of a problem because of that er huge roundabout they 've dug up right in the centre , but er coming into Newark and going back out again is no problem whatsoever . |
| 9 | They 've shot up actually . |
| 10 | They 've gone up again have n't they Jan ? |
| 11 | No no they 've gone up again . |
| 12 | but they 've grown up again . |
| 13 | ‘ What … you mean they 've turned up again ? |
| 14 | ‘ This woman 's a similar type to his English wife , and they 've read that they 've split up acrimoniously . |
| 15 | since they 've built up there , Mannings , Mannings Street or Mannings |
| 16 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 17 | Oh they 've opened up already . |
| 18 | Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place . |
| 19 | actually they 've dried up quite well , they seemed to of dried up |
| 20 | ‘ What a pity they 've set up here . |
| 21 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 22 | They had grown up together and their relationship was not one of repose or listlessness . |
| 23 | And next came the wonderful , handsome , shabby old house where they had grown up together . |
| 24 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 25 | They had joined up together in ‘ 39 and , when Simon had been killed at Alamein , Bert had died with him in spirit . |
| 26 | But when , two years later , Robyn was appointed to Rummidge , they had to split up again . |
| 27 | They had stayed up there with the princes until it had become dark , early , of course , in Egypt . |
| 28 | They had cleared up yesterday , thank goodness . |
| 29 | Rehearsals went on as usual every morning but in order to disturb the other passengers as little as possible , they had to get up very early and work in a screened-off area . |
| 30 | Ever since Mum had married Ken Lomax and they had come up here , he had felt useless . |