Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the flooding of RFK Stadium , the Washington Redskins have given up all hope of making another Superbowl — but the city 's new Red Herrings are an increasingly powerful force in major league water-polo . |
| 2 | I have given up all idea now of going to Kings and shall make my way across the Island as quickly as I can making a call or two on the way . |
| 3 | Two years on and £1,000 poorer ( I 've had to foot his costs to buy him off my land ) the lawyers have patched up some sort of agreement . |
| 4 | I have sat up all night attempting to watch the fish in the dark with the aid of a torch and the Orange Spot does venture out of the bogwood and hunts around for food . |
| 5 | But you have looked up some history for me ? |
| 6 | Which is comparable complexity and er they have picked up considerable experience from that but , you know , I do n't wish here in this committee to in any way challenge the er capabilities or the competence of erm , of Deutsch Aerospace to undertake |
| 7 | The Liberal Democrats have built up strong support and expect to win . |
| 8 | If you have built up some experience using the remedies then you will find the 30 an excellent potency for acute illness . |
| 9 | Company Programmes have built up particular expertise in a number of industry sectors which include retailing , construction , brewing , manufacturing , banking , computing , the public sector and the recently privatised companies . |
| 10 | However , since experience is person-centred the enterprise will have to reward and retain the loyalty of those company specialists or managers who have built up this expertise . |
| 11 | The developments in techniques for both sound and video recording have opened up another world of data to ethnomethodologists ( and , for that matter , to all sociologists ) . |
| 12 | THE Yanks have mopped up London-based printing ink company Usher-Walker . |
| 13 | Over the past few years , many companies have set up contracted-out money purchase schemes — or COMPS , as they are known for short — which operate on a different principle from final salary schemes . |
| 14 | All the emergency services … and gas and electricity workers … have set up real life situations that youngsters may face . |
| 15 | His remarks are reinforced by the fact that , according to the DTI 's Overseas Trade Service , more than 2,000 British companies have already established subsidiaries in France or have set up some form of joint venture with French companies . |
| 16 | ‘ That is all I am fit for , and you have taken up that option . |
| 17 | You have taken up American citizenship . |
| 18 | Alex Goldfarb , executive director of the ISF and formerly a biochemist at the Engelhardt Institute in Moscow , sees the gap between the number of applicants and the number of eligible scientists as a sign that many of his colleagues have left the country for greener pastures in the West or have taken up another occupation . |
| 19 | But frogs can and several species in South America have taken up permanent residence . |
| 20 | The younger age group have taken up conspicuous consumption , presumably as a means of recouping some esteem in terms of the apparently dominant and universalistic class criteria . |
| 21 | SASPAC91 for PC 's is being made available under the CHEST deal to academic sites who want to hold it ; the cost of a site licence is just under 3,000 for five years , and about 15 sites have taken up this offer . |
| 22 | THREE successful Darlington brothers and sisters have notched up another triumph . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , it 's a bit early , but I have dug up one piece of information that you 'll enjoy . |
| 24 | There can be few players in history who have clocked up 400 league games at the age of 25 . |
| 25 | As the course year drew to a close , management development courses have clocked up 477 trainee days . |