Example sentences of "have [vb pp] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very important that teenagers should never feel rejected by their parents , either because the parents really have given up on them or else because they treat them with coldness and apparent disapproval or dislike . |
| 2 | I know that although the doctors have given up on me , the GREAT PHYSICIAN who you and I know will not give up on me . |
| 3 | The unit reports to IBM president Jack Kuehler with the mission to retain as customers those users worldwide that have given up on mainframes altogether and are moving to open systems . |
| 4 | ‘ The art museums of the United States have given up on great shows with the exception of Carter Brown , and now he 's out . |
| 5 | We only start to talk about sacrifice with our children when something seriously wrong has happened in the relationship , when the mother or father says bitterly : ‘ Do n't you understand what I have given up for you ? |
| 6 | These factors have stacked up against the amateur game : a preponderance of Tours to house players ; a huge glamour industry attached to the pro game that seduces the players ; parents wanting to push their sons into a life of perceived prestige and an automatic aspiration to be a pro among most players of ability . |
| 7 | At successively' shorter wavelengths , IRAS sees clouds that have broken up into smaller and warmer cloudlets — as theory predicts — and the sources shining at 10 micrometres have probably completed the process and have just become stars , shining by their interior nuclear reactions . |
| 8 | The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been . |
| 9 | ‘ I have broken up with my boyfriend and I ca n't bear to let any man touch me . |
| 10 | Security is lost and the traditional social networks have broken up in favour of the commercial nexus . |
| 11 | Palatine now brew their own house lager ( ‘ Palatinate ’ ) and have joined up with a number of other smaller regional breweries to market independent products such as Dulverton Cider . |
| 12 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 13 | But now his injuries have caught up with him , despite a brave battle to recover from recent knee surgery . |
| 14 | ‘ This is for people who have had a passing interest in Hendrix or have caught up with his music in the advent of the CD age . |
| 15 | Now your tricks have caught up with you and you have to live here until you can persuade us that you will be an honest rabbit . " |
| 16 | You went to find him — did n't you ? — for his creditors have caught up with him at last . |
| 17 | ‘ And just when you think you have caught up with them they 've moved on to something else . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You — have caught up with your sleep after the weekend ? ’ |
| 19 | My , my years have caught up with me you know . |
| 20 | Some of the largest US banks , e.g. Bank of America or Citibank , have earned up to 50 per cent of their annual profits from international operations ; thus a US banking presence overseas is likely to be maintained or increased in future years . |
| 21 | For in the topsy turvy pecking order which is the current Russian economy , the middle class academics , civil servants and doctors have wound up at the bottom of the wages spiral , their savings largely , meaningless . |
| 22 | In the claim we are showing quite clearly , and we have won up to the present stage — six years to show that women 's work in the RVH is equal to men 's work . |
| 23 | These factors have added up to heavy oversubcription in France , and across Europe , where the lists have already closed ( British investors still have until Friday ) . |
| 24 | The measures will be even tighter than those instituted for all flights from French airports a week ago — which include the X-raying of all hold baggage , new controls on hand baggage , and body searches — that have added up to an hour to flight checks-ins . |
| 25 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 26 | But I have clammed up about L. Feel superstitious . |
| 27 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 28 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 29 | They have come up to London to see the Queen because a relative is to receive an honour . |
| 30 | ‘ Over the years hundreds of people have come up to me and said how they remember that night for my one-handed pots . |