Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the woodland in the valley is managed by the Forestry Commission , which has helped to draw up the new plan . |
| 2 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 3 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |
| 4 | In the first year of operation , NAB has begun to set up the essential third tier of its structure , namely study groups to examine and report upon specific subject areas and aspects of its operation . |
| 5 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 6 | No doubt Julius Reuter would have found setting up the famous news agency far easier if he had one to bash out his stories on . ’ |
| 7 | Suddenly the night had erupted into a confusion of fire , noise and light , as first the house had erupted in flames and then five heavy vehicles had come roaring up the twisting driveway , headlights blazing . |
| 8 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 9 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 10 | While admitting that the US company 's board had discussed winding up the Irish operation a number of times , he emphasized his gratitude and that of the board for the help and co-operation received from the Irish government and the IDA . |
| 11 | Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile . |
| 12 | Benjamin Titford had managed to clamber up the social ladder , as we have seen — rising , in the process , higher than his impoverished cousins in Frome had done . |
| 13 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 14 | Electric fish have , at least twice independently , hit upon this ingenious method of navigation , but they have had to pay a price : they have had to give up the normal , highly efficient , fish method of swimming , throwing the whole body into serpentine waves . |
| 15 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 16 | hames Water have promised to buy up the affected land and properties at their current value and are keeping that offer open until plans are finalised . |
| 17 | Christie 's had pointed up the stylistic similarity of the putti to those found in some of Rysbrack 's , tomb sculpture . |
| 18 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |