Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The mainland economy has only recently opened up with the growth of tourism : nor has it opened up to women and men ( or indeed Black and white workers ) in an exactly similar way . |
| 3 | Ironically , the Somerset bowling has n't quite lived up to the predictions . |
| 4 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 5 | She had clung to the doll tenaciously , until the awful feeling she 'd had once before stole up through her little body from her feet to her head , and the next thing she knew she was lying on the floor with her head in Ma 's lap . |
| 6 | HP appears to have pretty much given up on its own object-oriented New Wave environment for Unix . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching . |
| 9 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 10 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 11 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
| 12 | Translucent shapes undulated through the jungle , glimmering in the sunlight : the only life the Lucifer System had so far offered up for study . |
| 13 | Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes , 48 , had not exactly dressed up for his meeting with John Major . |
| 14 | The Water Board had not yet caught up with them . |
| 15 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 16 | Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again . |
| 17 | Now i d in our debate we , we had separately actually come up with very similar f processes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , I had n't really kept up with technology and Windows , as far as I was concerned , was something behind the curtains . |
| 20 | Well they said they will , they think will be by the time they 've paid up cos they had n't really paid up for , for last years yet ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As a student he had very quickly shacked up with a second-year chemistry undergraduate who had very definite ideas that Degree Day was rapidly followed by Wedding Day . |
| 23 | The principles here are clear , fully Catholic and yet in terms of pre-conciliar Roman theory revolutionary ( not so revolutionary in practice : some sacramental sharing had always continued in parts of the East where ecclesiastical reality had never quite caught up with the theory of ultramontanism ) . |
| 24 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 25 | Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with . |
| 26 | Although they have other options , the fact they have not yet given up on Hirst means they still feel they can sign their prime target . |
| 27 | And the problem is that the left , inside and outside the Labour Party , and the trade union movement , have not yet measured up to that historic requirement . |
| 28 | But the philosophers have not yet caught up with the idea . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't completely given up on the Steinbergers , though . |
| 30 | For every complaint that you have there may be 20 dissatisfied people that have n't actually come up to the school to make their feelings known — they do n't even tell you that they are upset . |