Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 18 months after terminating a distribution agreement with Wokingham , Berkshire-based Azlan Ltd , Gupta Corp has signed up the distributor once more : the agreement replaces the one Gupta has had with Frontline Distribution Ltd in the meantime , and covers the distribution of the company 's SQL System range of client-server databases , tools and end-user reporting products ; Gupta also signed a distribution deal with Qudis Networks Ltd . |
| 2 | Yet the rise has continued up the league ladder , even with the sale of playing assets . |
| 3 | A heavy backlog of cases has snarled up the court process for dealing with non-payers . |
| 4 | ‘ It is only recently that Robert Gordon 's University has opened up the field for people to do courses like this without having to leave home for long periods . ’ |
| 5 | Taylor has taken up the fight and is tackling small business worries over banks charges head . |
| 6 | In Oxford , Labour has used up the housing reserves and still owes £22 million on its council houses . |
| 7 | Quite often David has stepped up the tempo and provided tries for someone else . |
| 8 | A factory in Northamptonshire has taken up the challenge to create the fish footwear . |
| 9 | Rupe roots for his mate Bob Rupert Murdoch has stirred up the possums in Australia , his former homeland , by praising his mate Bob Hawke , the Prime Minister , and dismissing Andrew Peacock , the opposition leader . |
| 10 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 11 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 12 | All 12 winners having met up the evening before for an Italian meal at The Campana in London 's West End , followed by a night at The Regent Crest Hotel , the second half of the group arrived bright and early at the studio , ready for their transformations the next day . |
| 13 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 14 | By this time David had started up the Arts Lab and asked me if I would teach street theatre and improvisation there , so I was destined to go to Beckenham . ’ |
| 15 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 16 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 17 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 18 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 19 | An earlier wind had whipped up the surface snow into rivulets like tiny mountain ranges , and whirled spirals like ice cream from a machine . |
| 20 | Molly had buttoned up the braces on Jacqueline 's trousers and found her youngest child a biscuit when she heard the screams . |
| 21 | Piers had set up the garden table and two benches , and they had what turned out to be a very edible meal under the fading sun , with a magnificent view overlooking the still blue sea , with all the night noises playing a symphony around them . |
| 22 | He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux . |
| 23 | Ever since then , as the story goes , journalists have kept up the tradition of ending the final page of each story with the sign -30- . |
| 24 | These manufacturers have pushed up the resolution a little by breaking the display into submatrices , addressed separately , but connected to give a unified picture . |
| 25 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 26 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |
| 27 | Footpath work has opened up the Rosslyn Castle to Hewan right of way |
| 28 | Birkenhead MP Frank Field has taken up the fight of Tranmere residents who feared they were in danger of becoming a ‘ forgotten area . ’ |
| 29 | The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle . |
| 30 | ‘ The county council has to make up the remainder but it has already limited the amount it intends to spend . ’ |