Example sentences of "recently [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , sometimes when I saw a camera lifted to a scene I would like to have shared back home , I felt a twinge of loss and was suddenly conscious of my idle hands , like someone who has recently given up smoking . |
| 2 | Two whaling nations that had been among the largest , the United States and Britain , gave up whaling , and others have recently given up or are showing signs of doing so . |
| 3 | Except for one year when she lost a pound ; I think she 's only recently given up searching for it . |
| 4 | For example , what are the support needs of a step-family where the step-mother has recently given up work , had a new baby , where there are two sets of step-children in pre-puberty and puberty who have just changed house and schools , where one set of children have a good relationship with the non-custodial parent and the others do not ? |
| 5 | He was thirty-five , had recently given up his job as science master at Dulwich College , and was crossing the Atlantic — according to subsequent family legend , at least — in half-hearted pursuit of an American heiress . |
| 6 | The under-16 team recently picked up an award as the most sporting girls ' rugby team and have completed a very successful season ; eight girls have been selected for the Lancashire under-18 team and three for the under-13 team . |
| 7 | Ironically , the soap 's ratings have recently picked up . |
| 8 | Volunteers recently picked up eight tons of litter left by them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When I told him we had recently come up from Southampton he said , " Gee , I would n't go to sea in that little tub for double my wages . " |
| 11 | Although recently wound up , one spin-off has been the in-house desk-top publication of the Technical Bulletin itself — the excellent colour illustrations have been printed from computer digitised colour images taken from high quality transparencies . |
| 12 | The main measures of consumer optimism have recently turned up , and spending seems to be reviving . |
| 13 | Therefore , new legislation , modelled on Turkish religious law , was recently drawn up and a bill is now before the Albanian Parliament . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | IT WAS almost shock horror time when the blues recently got up one morning and decided to take a walk through the pop charts in the form of John Lee Hooker 's ‘ Boom Boom ’ . |
| 16 | A STORY doing the rounds at Buck House is that one of Her Majesty 's television sets recently packed up . |
| 17 | Several have recently set up services specifically to deal in repossessed properties . |
| 18 | The Science and Technology Directorate recently set up a science and technology committee to replace the Cefic R&D committee . |
| 19 | An example is the recently set up Cefic Environmental Advisory Service for Technology Transfer ( EASTT ) programme , which aims to help eastern Europe improve its environmental performance and energy consumption . |
| 20 | WOMEN AGAINST WAR IN THE GULF ( WAW-ITG ) was recently set up to build a mass women 's campaign within the wider anti-war movement . |
| 21 | The Oxford Heart Centre , based at the John Radcliffe , has recently set up a human heart valve ‘ band ’ to organise donation in the Oxford region . |
| 22 | Q I have recently set up a four foot tank which I furnished with rocks , caves and bogwood . |
| 23 | There are some helpful rationalisations afoot : Mercury , together with 11 other telecomms companies , has recently set up a joint venture , FNA , to provide ‘ unified communications services ’ between the financial centres of the world . |
| 24 | NetManage recently set up its UK distribution , appointing E92+ , Strood , Kent , and Specif(ix) of Matlock , Derbyshire . |
| 25 | The museum has recently set up the Jewellery Discovery Centre and is also planning to spend around £2.4m refurbishing Soho House , once owned by the eighteenth-century industrialist and inventor Matthew Boulton . |
| 26 | One must hope that the several ‘ Quangos ’ recently set up will help decentralization and will not increase the still-large army of civil servants . |
| 27 | It was described to someone who 's recently set up a a small restaurant on Road , as being a high risk insurance area . |
| 28 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 29 | British Coal Enterprise Ltd has recently set up a Fast Track Loans Scheme to provide almost ‘ instant loans ’ for small businesses in a bid to speed up job creation in pit closure areas . |
| 30 | The Practice Subscription Scheme , the RIBA Bookshop , the RSUA Insurance Services Scheme and the recently set up magazine , Perspective continue to provide well utilised services to the members and produce a healthy profit for the Society . |