Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have [adv] [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she returned to the camp Travis had already packed up . |
| 2 | Cheap fibre imported from the Far East is a growing threat and European viscose rayon rival Lenzing has recently set up business in Tennessee . |
| 3 | The Law Commission has now taken up our suggestion , which it terms ‘ divorce by process over time ’ , in its discussion paper Facing the Future . |
| 4 | The Law Society has already stepped up its drive to improve the quality of other areas of criminal defence work by publishing ‘ The Magistrates ’ Court — A Guide To Good Practice In The Preparation of Cases ’ . |
| 5 | The Mecca Leisure Group has already set up its own travel company to cater for and organize this kind of holiday , and others are likely to follow suit . |
| 6 | The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 . |
| 7 | Although they first became noticeable around the major conurbations — for example , in the Home Counties , in Cheshire and in parts of Warwickshire — in lowland England at least the commuting networks have virtually joined up . |
| 8 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 9 | The Periodical Publishers Association and Newspaper Society have already set up a working committee to campaign against the imposition of VAT on magazines and newspapers . |
| 10 | The main measures of consumer optimism have recently turned up , and spending seems to be reviving . |
| 11 | Hundreds of new age travellers have already turned up to the site . |
| 12 | The NUS and several other student unions have also taken up the campaign and it is hoped that the campaign will extend beyond the student movement to trade unions and women 's groups . |
| 13 | The NIF can be triggered under the following circumstances : demand in the commercial paper market has temporarily dried up , say , as the result of the failure of other borrowers or changes in regulatory conditions ; or , the corporate is having financial problems ( although the bank can protect itself with a ‘ material adverse change ’ clause ) . |
| 14 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 15 | In previous cases the Coal Board had either paid up or the owner had agreed to demolition . |
| 16 | The Kennel Club have also drawn up a code of ethics covering the sale of dogs in an attempt to control the so-called ‘ puppy farmers ’ who produce hundreds of animals purely for profit , and they offer a Canine Code , freely available to owners . |
| 17 | In actual fact , the one point five stipulation , I think East Devon have now put up to two , have n't they ? |
| 18 | And , since mid-April , bank stocks have also given up nearly all their gains amid fears of rising interest rates . |
| 19 | After lunch we retired to the drawing-room where the camera crew had already set up , and I sat on one sofa and he on another . |
| 20 | City firms have already stumped up more than £300 million for Taurus and are in no mood to inject any more cash into a replacement . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods . |
| 22 | It was in a fold of high ground on the northern borders of the vale that William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had recently taken up residence in a red-brick mansion called Racedown Lodge , a house combining Georgian elegance and merchant stolidity , and quite likely to be , as tradition asserts , the original of Sir Walter Elliot 's Kellynch Hall in Jane Austen 's Persuasion . |
| 23 | The CIA 's code of conduct , which has been operating since last April , is now an integral part of the association 's Responsible Care programme , to which all CIA member companies have now signed up . |
| 24 | Well today , poll tax has now gone up one pound , but for the old fogies it 's gone down one pound |
| 25 | Yeah the stag group has definitely wound up , the whole lot has been wound up |
| 26 | It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version . |
| 27 | Company squad-car 's just rolled up . ’ |
| 28 | The article said the chairman of TV London had just taken up residence in the castle . |
| 29 | His brother Donald had already opened up the route to South Africa with his famous Castle Line and occasionally vessels were transferred to supplement the respective fleets . |
| 30 | In the present generations of younger women , very few never marry so this particular source of family care has almost dried up , although there is evidence that never-married women still account for a disproportionate number of unpaid carers ( Finch and Groves , 1980 ; Lewis and Meredith , 1988 ) . |