Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 2 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 3 | Male bees , over many generations of cumulative orchid evolution , have built up the bee-like shape through trying to copulate with flowers , and hence carrying pollen . |
| 4 | In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources . |
| 5 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 6 | Now The Ridings Society , the Association of British Counties , the Yorkshire Society and the East Riding Action Group have set up the new organisation to press the case for the Yorkshire boundaries to be restored . |
| 7 | The Ridings Society , the Association of British Counties , the Yorkshire Society and the East Riding Action Group have set up the new organisation to press the case for the Yorkshire boundaries to be restored . |
| 8 | The call for a probe follows a letter sent to Sunday Life last week by inmates in the powderkeg jail who have set up the Concerned Prisoners For Justice Committee . |
| 9 | Called the Reptilons , these huge , scaly fiends have chained up the human inhabitants ( these by happy coincidence are the blonde bimbos ) . |