Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [adv] [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the Ministry of Defence has already drawn up plans to pull Britain 's 2,400 troops out of the danger zone swiftly , they could find themselves caught in the crossfire very quickly . |
| 2 | The most tantalising of opportunities has thus opened up for Mr Takeshita : the chance to be prime minister again . |
| 3 | ‘ The subject of marriage has never come up in our relationship . ’ |
| 4 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 5 | In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up , especially in the urban areas . |
| 6 | Until 1974 the British House of Commons had virtually given up all but the slightest influence in the disposition of executive proposals . |
| 7 | Boundary changes , opposition to routes and a lack of cash have all held up progress , but the project is set to start in autumn . |
| 8 | And the fact that quite a lot of people had n't turned up on a certain day or that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Obviously things have changed : not that long ago ‘ medium grade ’ meant VS and the centre of gravity has certainly moved up from there — but I bet the majority of climbers are still performing regularly at ‘ only ’ HVS/E1 . |
| 10 | In a sense that level of space has now loosened up . |
| 11 | If the Prince of Wales had not stood up and spoken as he did that day , the government might have remained entrenched on the subject for considerably longer than it was . |
| 12 | However , larger companies like Ford have also woken up to the fact that it could help them build small runs of specialist cars — the Ford RS200 for example — cheaply and quickly , which gave the movement momentum . |
| 13 | With IMG having just signed up the Wallabies , JIM TUCKER listens to Nick Farr-Jones ' advocacy of greater rewards for the players . |
| 14 | Bronwen reported the next day that Owen had slept deeply for about six hours , and for the first time in ages had not woken up several times during the night to go to the toilet . |
| 15 | ‘ The number of people in work has also gone up from 33,000 to 37,000 , ’ he said . |
| 16 | And RUC sources revealed that since the blackmail gang was scooped last June , extortion complaints from businessmen has virtually dried up . |
| 17 | ‘ Complaints from customers have actually gone up and we are setting specific quality objectives for the coming year , with technical programmes and systems to achieve them , ’ said operations manager . |
| 18 | Well if that car in front has not pulled up quite so far this way , I would of got out a little more easily . |
| 19 | But many bureaux who are dependent on volunteers have nevertheless kept up with these increased demands and offer the same in-depth service that bureaux staffed with paid workers offer . |
| 20 | On the other hand , commentators on English have recently come up with a startling reversal : they have begun to argue that natural gender , traditionally defined as a classification based on sex reference , is really a grammatical phenomenon . |
| 21 | The price per set had however gone up to £6 . |
| 22 | ‘ Lovers all through history have consistently screwed up their lives . ’ |
| 23 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |