Example sentences of "have [verb] up [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 2 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 3 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle . |
| 6 | By far the greatest protection for consumers in Britain is provided by parliament , which in several important pieces of legislation has set up a framework in which the respective rights and duties of consumers and suppliers can be identified and clarified . |
| 7 | The sculptor Rob Blote has set up a gallery in his home in Wassenaar with the specific purpose of selling works of art which the Dutch government had purchased through the BKR Scheme . |
| 8 | Mountain View , California-based , Network Computing Devices , has set up a subsidiary in Munich to support German distributor sales : it has existing operations in England and France and a joint venture in Japan . |
| 9 | Grace has set up a plant in India to process neem . |
| 10 | Mr Litman , who has set up an office in Moscow , is unperturbed by his rivals ' plans and promises that his ageing ex-spies will provide ‘ astounding new material that will shatter myths and create new controversies . ’ |
| 11 | Meanwhile 88Open , which boasts that some 80% of its business comes from Europe , has set up an office in the UK , under the charge of Steve Heath , previously from Motorola 's semiconductor operation . |
| 12 | Howell has taken up a job in Aberdeen and feels he may no longer be able to spare the time to travel back to Edinburgh each weekend . |
| 13 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 14 | Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’ |
| 15 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 16 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 17 | A party , can present a list without having to put up a candidate in every or indeed in any constituency . |
| 18 | However , in the meantime it was a daunting thought that if I took promotion I would have to give up the job in which I was most happy . |
| 19 | Instead of people having to read up the words in a dictionary it 's gon na be a sound dictionary . |
| 20 | Having set up a presence in the south east with representative offices in Japan , P&W felt confident enough to establish a bridgehead in Glasgow and it opened an office in the city last January . |
| 21 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
| 22 | " It was one of my bitterest hours to see our leader , only just home , having to throw up the sponge in front of the men he lived for " . |
| 23 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
| 24 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 25 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 26 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 27 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 28 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 29 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've grown up a lot in the last two years , ’ she said quietly and I silently agreed with her . |