Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC series ‘ Revolutions in Sound ’ , broadcast in 1988 , gave great publicity to the possibility of these records existing , but nothing has so far turned up . |
| 2 | I 'd pretty much made up my mind that they had to be forced into action , but it was such a difficult decision . |
| 3 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 4 | I was hop I had n't , I had n't really made up my mind that 's plenty biscuits Paula , yeah it 's plent do n't get , biscuit mania , Easter eggs , God |
| 5 | Unfortunately , I had n't really kept up with technology and Windows , as far as I was concerned , was something behind the curtains . |
| 6 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 7 | While in hospital I had mentioned to my surgeon that I intended to go to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre , although at that time I had not actually made up my mind . |
| 8 | ‘ I had never really grown up . ’ |
| 9 | No that 's not correct because I 've also already called up to P C into that master bedroom when I 've left or as I was about to handcuff er the man . |
| 10 | So , anyway , erm he went to see this lad , then he says oh I 've only just rang up about these speakers , they 're eleven pound odd each . |
| 11 | But I 've only just gone up anyway . |
| 12 | The 59-year-old , who has been on a hectic 10,000-mile round trip to Buenos Aires , said : ‘ I 've only just woken up and my only plans now are to go to bed . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've only just woken up . ’ |
| 14 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
| 15 | I 've only just got up — I 'm not feeling too brilliant . |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't completely given up on the Steinbergers , though . |
| 17 | But unfortunately I have n't quite come up with an answer to the question yet . ’ |
| 18 | Well I have n't long got up |
| 19 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 20 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 21 | I have really almost given up trying to discuss their poems , and just talk about poetry . |
| 22 | In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption , which has only recently run up against its limitations . |
| 23 | Everywhere else the ground was held solid under the rain by the vast grip of the vegetation which had so rapidly sprung up . |
| 24 | Second , she has not only cleaned up her act , she seems to have adopted a remarkably apt late twentieth-century camouflage : from Baltic peasant to stereotypical dyke 's delight is a transition not normally catered for in those women 's magazines that offer readers new looks for new lifestyles . |
| 25 | And she 'd only just got up ? |
| 26 | ‘ However , I see that you 've only just got up . ’ |
| 27 | It would also be better from the point of view of traffic — she had n't yet looked up Hallborough on a map , but she guessed she would need her car to get to it . |
| 28 | It felt , despite the new clothes , that she had n't quite made up her mind . |
| 29 | Tonight , wherever she looked she saw herself reflected and transformed , her face shining as though she had quite suddenly woken up after a long sleep , filled with lovely dreams . |
| 30 | It was more surprising coming from thrusting thirtysomethings who had probably never picked up a copy in their lives , certainly not since their last visit to the school dentist . |