Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] [vb pp] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 2 | The Face pulls a bolder trick than most , and one that has now blown up in its own , er , face , with the £200,000 libel damages awarded to Jason Donovan . |
| 3 | Jane Brown 's gift is to vault the divide that has unfortunately grown up between architects and the rest of us and bring their drawings alive in the most agreeable and informative way . |
| 4 | At the same time , military service had taken its toll in many American Boardrooms : inevitably , far fewer returned than had originally joined up , their ranks thinned by death on active service , by the desire to stay on in uniform and by retirement . |
| 5 | In an instant she was aware of every detail of her appearance from the upswept Titian curls , tamed for the meeting that had just broken up in fragmented dissatisfaction among the main body of the directors , to her neat cinnamon gabardine suit and matching high court shoes . |
| 6 | But , of course , Dad had had all sorts of minor affairs and that had n't broken up the marriage . |
| 7 | Adam scanned his taut features , uncomfortable and slightly puzzled by the undercurrent of tension that had suddenly sprung up . |
| 8 | As he walked behind the plough he had time to think of the easy relationship that had gradually built up between them . |
| 9 | It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments . |
| 10 | Very dodgy position , but your the one that 's just taken up full time post |
| 11 | From the financial services market , Sherwood picked off Consort Data Ltd ( CI No 2,017 ) , with its personal computer stockbroking systems , for £250,000 — and has already notched up eight sales . |
| 12 | The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) . |
| 13 | Chris Vaughan , a management consultant from Farnham , Surrey , bought his just before last Christmas and has already clocked up thousands of miles . |
| 14 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 15 | The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society offers help for families who have lost babies and has just set up a Darlington branch . |
| 16 | Subsequently , the MBC has made available a number of new premises for rent to processors and has generally tidied up and improved the area using Industrial Improvement Area procedures . |
| 17 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 18 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 19 | On this basis , inflation stands at more than 7% ( at an annual rate ) and has actually crept up since January ( see chart ) . |
| 20 | The Centre maintains a documentary resources centre and has recently set up a national ethnic minority statistical database . |
| 21 | A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent . |
| 22 | Since March 1990 Mid Glamorgan 's community drug team has seen a progressive increase in the number of users of anabolic steroids attending general needle exchange clinics and has therefore set up a separate service for these users . |
| 23 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 24 | It looked as if Old Hubbard had been drinking again and had not shown up on Tuesday . |
| 25 | The tennis equipment specialists , Head , had brought some racquets and accessories along and had also set up a ‘ speed-gun ’ to record service speeds . |
| 26 | They had consolidated their position since the fifteenth century and had latterly built up an impregnable position in the social infrastructure of the region . |
| 27 | Jordan 's patrol , passing that way the night before , had been spotted , and had then shot up some trucks . |
| 28 | They were dropped by their record label Phonogram after the hits dried up , and had actually split up after a gig in Jersey . |
| 29 | I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication ; my father , I recalled , had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier . |
| 30 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |