Example sentences of "[vb pp] up on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 2 | The Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on Intel Corp iAPX-86-based machines ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 3 | Meantime the Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on iAPX-86-based machines ( CI No 2,133 ) . |
| 4 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 5 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 6 | It 's nice to have but it remains a novelty : only IBM and Epson have picked up on this new format with any degree of enthusiasm . |
| 7 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 8 | The people at the back may not be picked up on this so erm |
| 9 | I think probably the implications and a lot of people have er picked up on this as the policy has developed , is that er well they 're they 're concerned that the policy is in fact too flexible now because of how it is being interpreted by other people . |
| 10 | I 've caught , I 've caught up on most of it I 've got to copy up some maths but I 'll , I 'll borrow someone 's book this weekend . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you know that Michel actually turned up on that dreadful morning when Constanza was frantic to get to the station ? |
| 12 | You 've already lost me one race because you 're still hung up on that business at Ascot . |
| 13 | ‘ Still hung up on that , are you ? |
| 14 | four weeks , would have shown up on that . |
| 15 | four weeks , would have shown up on that . |
| 16 | He has n't shown up on any of the ferry company computers , or any of the airline ones , for that matter . |
| 17 | It was possibly the first time the BBC had had to take other equipment out of service because someone ( Voigt ) complained of its bad performance , which had shown up on this speaker . |
| 18 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 19 | In the present state of our knowledge of provincial life during the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods , no precise scale can as yet be drawn up on any single topic , let alone a general model that encompasses and balances all factors . |
| 20 | It is the responsibility of all Ministers to see that papers are drawn up on these lines . |
| 21 | They must have been washed up on this ancient beach after being torn from their moorings , perhaps by a storm . |
| 22 | These islands are rapidly broken up by wind and waves , but the pumice fragments may be carried thousands of kilometres , to be washed up on some distant coral strand . |
| 23 | The truth is that Libya has been stiched up on several occasions since Libyan oil was nationalised in 1969 and Gaddafi refused to behave like the American client his predecessors used to be . |
| 24 | I 've given up on that idea actually . |
| 25 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 26 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 27 | She was still pondering on his use of her name as the taxi drove through the dark city streets , the driver having given up on any hopes of conversation after a couple of monosyllabic and nonsensical replies from his customer . |
| 28 | Her patient had finished her tea and now leant back with her eyes closed and the swollen ankle propped up on another chair . |
| 29 | Very simple throw in and er I thought Milwall just were n't geared up on that one at all . |
| 30 | A really thorough murderer would have boned up on both subjects more intently . |