Example sentences of "have [adv] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we know that through that period , there has been a steady increase in the number of police officers the county have got , and this county has always up to now , willingly funded those police officers . |
| 2 | I registered every dog we had right up to 1969 . |
| 3 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 4 | " Why , as a matter of interest , " said Martin , calmly , as though the discussion up to this point had been quite unreliable , " did you have so many children , Candida ? " and Mrs Denham , strangely , took off her glasses , and frowned , and began to speak as though she had indeed up to this point been talking nonsense . |
| 5 | The increased numbers of people were housed by splitting up existing houses so that even modest cottages had sometimes up to twenty people living in them . |