Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 2 | Taylor has taken up the fight and is tackling small business worries over banks charges head . |
| 3 | Quite often David has stepped up the tempo and provided tries for someone else . |
| 4 | A factory in Northamptonshire has taken up the challenge to create the fish footwear . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 7 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 8 | By this time David had started up the Arts Lab and asked me if I would teach street theatre and improvisation there , so I was destined to go to Beckenham . ’ |
| 9 | Gary Shandling , host of the ceremony in Los Angeles , warned the audience after Clapton had picked up the Best Album Grammy : ‘ If you are up in any other categories against Eric Clapton , I would go home now . ’ |
| 10 | Molly had buttoned up the braces on Jacqueline 's trousers and found her youngest child a biscuit when she heard the screams . |
| 11 | Birkenhead MP Frank Field has taken up the fight of Tranmere residents who feared they were in danger of becoming a ‘ forgotten area . ’ |
| 12 | An aviation archaeologist in Normandy has dug up the remains of what is thought to be a Seafire , naval version of the Spitfire fighter , buried some 20 feet deep in a maize field near Rauville-la-Place . |
| 13 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 14 | I have been impressed with the way Wilkinson has built up the squad over the last few years . |
| 15 | Furthermore , Robert has worked up the story very well . |
| 16 | Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern . |
| 17 | She remembered that Aycliffe had brought up the matter of clothes , that Benedict himself had scolded her for her nip-cheese ways . |
| 18 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 19 | Mickey had rang up the social worker and he had taken the bairn . |
| 20 | Hamish had taken up the managerial place at the factory that everyone had expected would be Kenneth 's , when Kenneth had decided to teach . |
| 21 | I waited until Duncan had winched up the Golf to the road and exchanged the rope for the winch hook which lifted the front of the VW off the ground so it could be towed . |
| 22 | THE prospect of a tour to South Africa has fired up the imagination of senior ALL BLACKS said to have been contemplating retirement after the World Cup . |
| 23 | Shell UK has started up the new ethylbenzene production unit at its Stanlow manufacturing complex . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Jacques Pinon , owner of a cafe tabac in Paris has put up the required ‘ no smoking ’ signs , but thinks his responsibility stops there . |
| 26 | HONG KONG has stepped up the pressure on China , promising to publish democratic reform legislation soon unless Beijing agrees to come to the negotiating table . |
| 27 | Ivory reached the west partly from Egypt but also , after the Arab conquerors of North Africa had opened up the trans-Saharan route from Tunisia by way of Chad to the Niger , directly from equatorial Africa . |
| 28 | They had packed and Adam had locked up the house . |
| 29 | It was claimed that Goebbels had raised up the Führer to be the ‘ German god ’ . |
| 30 | The vote on Mr Craxi has speeded up the disintegration of Italy 's scandal-tainted parties . |