Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pilot project has been started in the refugee camp at Leon , where the resident psychiatric social worker has decided to set up discussion groups on mental health and is encouraging the community to use its own resources : |
| 2 | Exmoor National Park has decided to set up information agencies in selected village shops . |
| 3 | She has had to give up work , which has put a financial strain on the family . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend will be aware , when he next visits Lancashire , that the news that the Liberal council has had to give up office in Maidstone has travelled the length and breadth of the land — |
| 5 | The company now charges £20 for collection of a cow carcass and has refused to pick up sheep . |
| 6 | She took up guitar at seven , gave her first recital at nine , her first concerto at 10 , her first radio broadcast at 14 , won an international guitar competition at 17 , and has continued to pick up awards and critical plaudits on her chosen instrument . |
| 7 | The Bank Action Group has vowed to take up Mr Stoller 's case . |
| 8 | Joseph Dods has begun setting up clubs in County Durham schools to help youngsters learn about the natural world around them . |
| 9 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 10 | I also think that , realistically speaking , the Crown Prosecution Service letter disposes of the potentially troublesome question whether the authorities might have decided to follow up clues revealed by the primary disclosures on the part of the defendant . |
| 11 | Even the party leadership does n't really believe that de-regulation is the best guarantee of the public good : if it did , it would n't have needed to call up Lord Rees-Mogg to police TV decency . |
| 12 | An accomplished 165 may have helped set up Northamptonshire 's comprehensive thwacking of Glamorgan , but the vice-captain 's overall form had not been all he would have wished , a reflection , perhaps , of a disenchanted soul . |
| 13 | He should never have started making up stuff about Everett Maltby . |
| 14 | They could also find themselves having to pay to clean up pollution on sites they have bought . |
| 15 | First there was a welcome break when we took Venturous westward across the Minch to Stornoway where we had arranged to pick up Reg Clarke , our reigning cutter management Principal , who was flying up from London HQ to see some of our work first hand . |
| 16 | The communists had organised to break up Olympia . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ I 've decided to give up drink . ’ |
| 18 | In the preceding months the PS had sought to step up pressure on the government ; it had joined with the PCP in tabling a censure motion in parliament in October 1989 attacking the government for its low ethical standards ; although the motion was defeated , attention was again turned to the then Finance Minister , Miguel Ribeiro Cadilhe , following allegations early in the year of his financial misconduct [ see p. 36945 ] . |
| 19 | However , a report in The Times of April 25 stated that the three main Panthic committees , whose member organizations led the separatist struggle in the state , had decided to put up candidates in the elections . |
| 20 | While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million . |
| 21 | I 've got to go up Asda . |
| 22 | That should be alright Yeah we 've got to go up town Thursday have n't we ? |
| 23 | I suppose you 've got to weigh up sot of various . |
| 24 | I 'm sure it 'll look lovely , if it , I mean if you 've got grown up bridesmaid 's in every one , you will expect seeing |
| 25 | This is n't a man I 've got pitching up hay to me , it 's a flipping machine ! ’ |
| 26 | We 've got to pick up Diana as well . |
| 27 | I 've got to phone up Sunday I 'll say he ca n't do it until the spring cos dad 's got he suffers with his chest . |
| 28 | My people live in Warwickshire , and knew the Holdens well , and if you had thought to look up Debrett 's Peerage you could have proved it . |
| 29 | Only five people specifically mentioned the adverse effect on their work : one daughter said she had had to give up work , and two sons and two daughters-in-law complained of being called away from their work to deal with a problem affecting their mother . |
| 30 | As a member of a legislative committee he had helped to draw up justice reforms approved by the Constituent Assembly which completed its work in July [ see p. 38332 ] . |