Example sentences of "has [vb pp] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags .
2	The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is .
3	This arises where the tenant has closed the premises prior to the end of the term and has used up the full entitlement to rating relief .
4	Bowie , whose admiration is tinged with honest caution , has summed up the Lacanian system in these words :
5	To counteract that Murphy has set up the Edinburgh-based PR Centre .
6	Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours .
7	Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh , actor , director and entrepreneur , has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours .
8	Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern .
9	‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says .
10	The issue has climbed up the political agenda .
11	But a come for an eventual second runway has whipped up the inevitable storm of controversy among local residents .
12	In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service .
13	Shell UK has started up the new ethylbenzene production unit at its Stanlow manufacturing complex .
14	While it was the Today newspaper that focused national attention on the fact that the Princess did not have to travel half way round the world to find clean water , it is the aptly-named CoastGuard that has kept up the high standards of cleanliness for royalty and commoners alike .
15	Terry has portioned up the mighty delta and has wisely opted to do the undersides during the winter !

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