Example sentences of "have [verb] up so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Storehouse chairman feels far more at home leading the expansion of the group he has built up so assiduously . |
| 2 | Well , clearly the revival thing has moved up so that we 're about to have Eighties revivals very soon . |
| 3 | The opinion polls have begun to suggest that ordinary Greeks are getting tired of the alternation of placeholders that has made up so much of recent Greek politics . |
| 4 | Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles . |
| 5 | Marcos was a prime beneficiary of Washington 's egregious ‘ hold-the-nose ’ policy , the brand of realpolitik which , since the Second World War , has buoyed up so many of the world 's most grotesque regimes . |
| 6 | But because labour related to cost of the total has gone up so much , er i i most people now prepared to pack would prefer to do . |
| 7 | ‘ The murderous Gruncher , who has gobbled up so many thousands of us Minpins , has gone for ever ! |
| 8 | The Arundel-trained colt came to the course having shown up so well on his home gallops that he held a Royal Ascot date . |
| 9 | I would not have started up so guiltily and … the Lord works in mysterious ways . |
| 10 | With curious fitness , fate had it in store for him to marry an heiress and settle down in a castle in Spain — he who had conjured up so many of them in the imagination of junior executives . |
| 11 | By this time the wagonettes had caught up so that the rest of the day proceeded according to plan . |
| 12 | The vast amount of routine clerical labour which had made up so much day-to-day activity in the past had been lightened by the coming of the woman typist and sometimes also of clerks recruited specifically for this sort of work . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her concern now was how she was going to cover the syllabus since she had used up so much time on these practical activities . |
| 15 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 16 | Beaming all over his face he related how he had told the mother congregation that he had woken up so happy … bursting with joy and excitement at the birth of a new baby … and they should be happy too ! |
| 17 | We would be expecting to double last week 's figures , because it 's picked up so dramatically in the last couple of days . |
| 18 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 19 | We 're checking out the name but nothing 's come up so far . ’ |
| 20 | One official said ‘ Twenty or so forgeries have turned up so far , but we believe quite a number more are in the system . ’ |
| 21 | own kids have grown up so it does n't matter to them , just live back in days and make you spend your money the way they tell you and live how you they tell you . |
| 22 | There h have been cases where the person 's back muscles have pulled up so tight that their they 've formed an arch . |
| 23 | supervision and they 're used until the head of the femur right , the head of the femur is fixed back into the socket joint and the muscles and ligaments have tightened up so that they hold the bone in place and treatment can go on until they 're about a year the consequences of not treating this condition are quite severe , the child will grow up with a very odd gait . |
| 24 | The Bi-Bop system was launched last month in Paris and Strasbourg and users need to be within 600 feet of a Telepoint ; about 12,000 people have signed up so far ; from September Bi-Bop and PowerBop will be able to receive calls too , getting round the big drawback of Telepoint . |