Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If I 'd known what it was I would have chopped up that snow-plough before the snows arrived . ’ |
| 5 | She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads . |
| 6 | His sharp ears , predictably , had picked up that nuance . |
| 7 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 8 | You 've grown up that way . |
| 9 | Oliver scowled at him and went behind the plant , muttering a spell he had made up that morning . |
| 10 | It was somewhere along the lane between Nunes and Hadleigh but so much vegetation had grown up that spring that everything looked different . |
| 11 | She could follow the shoreline all the way to where they had pulled up that afternoon looking for shelter , but that would take hours . |
| 12 | Hopelessly outnumbered , they had charged up that slope , cutting and slashing their way through the serried ranks of Russian cavalry , forcing them back , back … |
| 13 | ‘ That is all I am fit for , and you have taken up that option . |
| 14 | You see how beautifully evenly it 's taken up that ink . |