Example sentences of "have [verb] up the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she just has to pick up the phone and a friendly voice at The Wool Shop is always there to help . |
| 2 | The Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford has to weigh up the risks and the costs of each convoy . |
| 3 | Undaunted by suggestions that some things may simply be beyond quantifying , the MCI has set up the Knowledge and Understanding project to investigate . |
| 4 | It has set up the Highlands and Islands Development Board . |
| 5 | Quite often David has stepped up the tempo and provided tries for someone else . |
| 6 | Taylor has taken up the fight and is tackling small business worries over banks charges head . |
| 7 | KRAFT General Foods has snapped up the US and Canadian businesses of breakfast cereal giant R J R Nabisco . |
| 8 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 9 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 10 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 11 | Ah they would have had to wash up the plates and the knives and forks . |
| 12 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 13 | You would have picked up the parcel and you would have delivered it yourself . |
| 14 | Could n't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page . |
| 15 | We could have harnessed up the goat-cart and come and fetched you . |
| 16 | Then , having sewn up the body and filled the outlets with camphor , it was well washed , thoroughly dried and rubbed with fragrant oils — in the case of Maria Van Butchell this last act was done by her husband on 12 February 1775 . |
| 17 | Having sized up the competition and feeling confident that I had nothing to fear , I boldly took a step forward , grabbed a morsel of soap and proceeded to scrub away . |
| 18 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 19 | The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness . |
| 20 | This three-track tape was recorded under the auspices of the GDR Studios in Darlington who seem to have rounded up the Divers and pointed them in the right direction . |
| 21 | ‘ And I 'm going to have to make up the cameras and equipment , too , because we do n't have any . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed , limp and helpless as a rag doll . |
| 24 | By 1939 he had given up the dogs and the main business was credit betting , though he was still operating at Northolt Park . |
| 25 | Lee Kuan Yew 's son Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh 's post as PAP first assistant secretary-general and remained a Deputy Prime Minister ; however , he had given up the Trade and Industry portfolio in mid-November after announcing that he was undergoing treatment for cancer . |
| 26 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 27 | I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out . |
| 28 | Cowley had picked up the phone and was listening quietly . |
| 29 | He had picked up the phone and was asking Celia to show their visitor up , James Morris glanced disdainfully at the new manager . |
| 30 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |