Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up their [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases they have given up their spare time to pursue a personal dream of making life better for those around them . |
| 2 | A PUBLIC relations stunt to prove that Charles and Diana have patched up their troubled marriage backfired last night when it was revealed they will still sleep in separate beds . |
| 3 | Taking these 12 pollsters ' December 1991 GDP forecasts , we have added up their absolute forecasting errors ( ie , ignoring whether it is plus or minus ) for each of the seven economies . |
| 4 | As Asian countries have built up their own knowledge industries and have begun to export knowledge products , they have naturally moved to regulate this complex trade . |
| 5 | After Black Monday , large firms like Shearson have built up their corporate finance departments and relied increasingly on them to generate earnings . |
| 6 | A vagrant jazz trio have set up their tattered equipment on a grassy knoll and are tearing into the theme from The Flintstones with commendable gusto . |
| 7 | Private client broking firms have set up their own trade body in response to fears that the ISE is ignoring small customers in favour of institutional investors and international equities ( Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers ( APCIMS ) ) . |
| 8 | The bite of the recession has made companies reluctant to offer placements so the students have set up their own action desk . |
| 9 | TEESSIDE Polytechnic students struggling to find industrial placements have set up their own hotline . |
| 10 | A handful of national splittists in Xinjiang , colluding with national splittists outside Xinjiang , have stepped up their splitting activity . " |
| 11 | Despite a crackdown , Islamic militants have stepped up their hit-and-run insurgency , turning swathes of southern Egypt into battle zones through which foreigners may travel only with lorryloads of nervous police escorts . |
| 12 | The band have tightened up their live set and feel they are playing their best music ever . |
| 13 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
| 14 | As yet unsigned , Waterbratz have notched up their third demo ‘ Plastermind ’ , the most aggressive to date . |