Example sentences of "have [verb] up [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	If you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , read what that council has got up to over the past four years , you will appreciate fully , just as people in Hackney do , just how shameful the record is .
2	And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve ,
3	Of all the girls he could have taken up with in the camp , she was about the most unlikely .
4	What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy .
5	We have to change the definition of the word that we 've grown up with over the years , otherwise we really ca n't manage the concept .
6	But what we have to do is completely junk the definition of the word quality that we 've grown up with over the years .
7	Although he was clearly a grand gentleman — and she could sense the larger houses up and down the valley waking up to his presence like hunting dogs suddenly scenting a stag on the wind — his consideration for her — in one or two trivial matters — was nearer to the sort of decent , friendly understandings she herself had grown up with in the village .
8	Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending .
9	‘ That 's our newest arrival ’ said the Foreman with a laugh ; adding thoughtlessly , ‘ and I 'll bet her conditions are better than the ones you had to put up with in the war .
10	Which is just as well considering what she had to put up with from the fans .
11	At Ladbroke Grove a boy called Dean Miller , whom the rest of them knew and had teamed up with on the platform at Royal Oak , opened the door at the end of the car and climbed up on to the roof .

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