Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’ |
| 2 | They are both the product of good intentions : old-Etonian William Waldegrave has promised to speak up for the ‘ little guy ’ . |
| 3 | Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice . |
| 4 | To put it in simple terms , hard disk performance has failed to keep up with the massive increases in processor speeds — you need a disk cache of some description , so we might as well start with the one you get for free . |
| 5 | Thomas is seeking to recoup from Essex the fees his parents have had to pay to make up for the lack of state-funded special tuition available to him . |
| 6 | And yet because you 've come from a P A Y E background , you feel you 've got to get up in the morning , and go to work . |
| 7 | A : Well , I suppose I would — that would be the ideal situation , but I think you 've got to face up to the reality of the whole thing . |
| 8 | This one , he said , pointing to Bobby , he had had to pick up in the street . |
| 9 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 10 | During our meal the restaurant had begun to fill up with the pre-theatre crowd , Brighton burghers and their wives . |
| 11 | Remarkably , Pliny slept calmly during the early part of the night , although ashes had begun to pile up outside the house , but he eventually awoke as the situation deteriorated . |
| 12 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 13 | They had chosen to sign up with the UFO subculture . |
| 14 | Held fast in the mud with her cargo of bricks , she had failed to come up with the rising tide and the water had turned her over . |
| 15 | Just think what we have struggled to build up over the years , for what we call job security . |
| 16 | We have got to face up to the Warner Report as well , which is to do with staffing in community homes , and again , that 's an issue which we can pick up later , as we go into detailed reports . |
| 17 | SINCE artworks began to flood out of China in the early 1980s — mostly smuggled by sea to Macao or Hong Kong — extraordinary rarities , hitherto unknown in the West , have begun to turn up on the market . |
| 18 | Under the Act , regional councils no longer have the power to coordinate bus services in their area , with the result that gaps have begun to open up in the bus network throughout Scotland . |
| 19 | As water engineers have begun to face up to the problems of crumbling sewers , they have become concerned too , with the effect of holes in their other , parallel supply system , the water mains . |
| 20 | Its report , Fit for the Future says that in many respects the Parks have failed to live up to the expectations of their founders , as enshrined in the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act . |