Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | On top of all that Prince Charles , heir to the throne and the man destined to become the Church 's supreme governor , has just split up with his wife and divorce looks likely . |
2 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
3 | It has just woken up after fifteen thousand years . ’ |
4 | Your client Paul Pry has just set up in his own business selling computers , and hopes to employ several people . |
5 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
6 | Louis looked as though he 'd just got up off the ground after being knocked out in a fight . |
7 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
8 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
9 | A breakwater would have just risen up above the horizon and come , become slightly more important . |
10 | Wow , he plays drums — multi-talented ! ’ and you 've just grown up with it and it 's no big deal . |
11 | York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area . |
12 | that I 've just picked up off the here . |
13 | And Anna Freud said , okay that 's what you called it , but supposing we had to look what you 've just described up in a dictionary , what word would be found ? |
14 | I feel like I 've just woken up after a long dream ; ’ |
15 | Charles wondered what new disaster had hit the production , or which of the producer 's dubious deals had just blown up in his face . |
16 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
17 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
18 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
19 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
20 | It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation . |
21 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
22 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
23 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
24 | I HAVE just set up in business as a limited company . |
25 | ‘ Peter 's just split up with his partner . |
26 | She 's just moved up from Kent and has come with packing cases full of cups and medals : a winning record which was topped this week with the Champion of Champions trophy and an ambition to become the world 's number one . |
27 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
28 | But it 's just gone up to two pound twenty . |
29 | They 'll probably be in all night and she 's just walked up from the bingo and toddle in there . |
30 | Belushi exudes all the erotic charisma of a frozen carp , Bracco looks and acts as if she 's just signed up with a Dial a Dime Hostess service and there are various large signposts pointing firmly at The Murderer . |