Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and this is compounded by the fact that the executive branch has given up any attempt to control the military-industrial complex . |
| 2 | ADVANCED trenching equipment has speeded up this aspect of a project to such an extent , |
| 3 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
| 4 | Once a particular electron has soaked up enough energy from the X-rays for its release it begins to radiate from the parent atom ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 5 | Like a growing number of promoters , Geoff knows that keeping the style inside means keeping the ‘ riff-raff ’ — the Ecstasy raconteurs , the ten-a-penny ravers , the baseball caps — out , and to this end he has called up that ghost of clubbing past , the door policy . |
| 6 | Soon the chewed mass has sponged up any moisture left and your dry tongue is clanging against the side of your mouth like the great bell of Notre Dame . |
| 7 | The Delicatessen & Fine Food Association has set up this telephone service to help you track down your nearest supplier of almost any specialist ingredient . |
| 8 | But a winter of hard work , tuning and rebuilding the engine , has rounded up more speed and Ian knows he can stay with the very best . |
| 9 | Its decline explains why the wholesale price of mistletoe has gone up this year by as much as £15 a hundredweight at England 's largest market — Tenbury Wells in Herefordshire . |
| 10 | The US Government is also making available grants of $2.8 million for site selection and characterisation , but so far no Native American nation has taken up that offer . |
| 11 | During the war she worked as a translator , and at the time of the action of the novel she has taken up this trade again recently . |
| 12 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 14 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 15 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 16 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 17 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 18 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 19 | The marriage must have broken up some time in 1980 . |
| 20 | Having given up all hope of getting hold of a man for herself alone , she would be prepared to share one as the next best thing . |
| 21 | Ruth thought her aunt would have sat up all night to prolong the time with them , but her uncle — who had tried bravely all day to behave as though nothing untoward was happening — put his arms around his wife 's shoulders and led her away to bed . |
| 22 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 23 | Folly realised belatedly that she might have stirred up some trouble for her informant . |
| 24 | Erm , that is , how can we make sure that erm Plato , or Socrates , does n't descend to this level and then ascend to the one , as everyone else is , erm and then having got up this side somehow come down this ? |
| 25 | He 'd have thought up some joke , or turned it to his advantage . |
| 26 | Bill Rodgers having set up this committee , it now fell to me to decide what to do with their report . |
| 27 | ‘ The building could have gone up any minute , ’ said police . |
| 28 | If I 'd known what it was I would have chopped up that snow-plough before the snows arrived . ’ |
| 29 | Ridley , as an ophthalmologist , might well have followed up this observation with more studies of eye infections , but the opportunity seems not to have been pursued . |
| 30 | Secondly having put up this message when I try to exit windows it tells me that 1-2-3 is still active but I can not find a way to deactivate it . |