Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 2 | Alex Goldfarb , executive director of the ISF and formerly a biochemist at the Engelhardt Institute in Moscow , sees the gap between the number of applicants and the number of eligible scientists as a sign that many of his colleagues have left the country for greener pastures in the West or have taken up another occupation . |
| 3 | His remarks are reinforced by the fact that , according to the DTI 's Overseas Trade Service , more than 2,000 British companies have already established subsidiaries in France or have set up some form of joint venture with French companies . |
| 4 | Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services . |
| 5 | On top of that , other money from the fund was left untouched and has built up substantial interest . |
| 6 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 7 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |