Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help . |
| 2 | Fedelma has only started up the business since beginning the course and has found it a ‘ great practical help ’ . |
| 3 | When Weissbräu has finally mopped up the market for popular , easily-drinkable wheat beers , it will be glad to have such tasty , characterful brews as a specialist line . |
| 4 | safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night . |
| 5 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 6 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 7 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods . |
| 9 | Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 . |
| 10 | DEC has also set up the Object Database Assessment Team to provide consultancy to customers deciding between an object database or a traditional approach for an application . |
| 11 | He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour . |
| 12 | The union has also taken up the case of 50 workers who were fired for joining the union . |
| 13 | The sociologist Bernice Martin has perceptively summed up the situation in terms of recent English culture when she says that : |
| 14 | Nonetheless he feels ‘ the poor economic situation has really speeded up the move towards more openness . |
| 15 | John Ritchie , Staff Development TVEI Co-ordinator , has now followed up the audit by inviting all schools in identify developments that should be undertaken centrally to allow these gaps to be filled . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has now wrapped up the deal under which it hands over MAPICS to Marcam Corp in return for 1.615m new shares in its partner . |
| 17 | The museum has recently set up the Jewellery Discovery Centre and is also planning to spend around £2.4m refurbishing Soho House , once owned by the eighteenth-century industrialist and inventor Matthew Boulton . |
| 18 | With its range of awards including the new Assessors Award , the Wordpower and Numberpower certificates in communication and numeracy skills and the Vocational Access Certificate , LCCIEB has certainly taken up the challenge to provide wider access to qualifications . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I think I 'd better wash up the breakfast things , if you do n't mind . |
| 20 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 21 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 22 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 23 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 24 | Nigel Mansell showed today that he 's still out to win despite having already wrapped up the World Championship . |
| 25 | Having just mopped up the minority in Siemens-Nixdorf , would Siemens be ready to admit a new investor into the company ? |
| 26 | With IMG having just signed up the Wallabies , JIM TUCKER listens to Nick Farr-Jones ' advocacy of greater rewards for the players . |
| 27 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 28 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 29 | The theme of Stalingrad was becoming rapidly a major embarrassment to the propagandists , especially those on the Wehrmacht staff , who had prematurely whipped up the victory atmosphere in September . |
| 30 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |