Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] up [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 3 | Fry , sacked only 10 days ago , has somehow patched up his differences with chairman Stan Flashman and will take over his old job for the game against Rochdale today . |
| 4 | The Law Society has already stepped up its drive to improve the quality of other areas of criminal defence work by publishing ‘ The Magistrates ’ Court — A Guide To Good Practice In The Preparation of Cases ’ . |
| 5 | It has already made up its mind what kind of literature the Bible is . |
| 6 | Besides , I think Miles has already made up his mind . ’ |
| 7 | The Mecca Leisure Group has already set up its own travel company to cater for and organize this kind of holiday , and others are likely to follow suit . |
| 8 | By the time she 's thirty — and Eleanor was thirty in spite of appearances — a woman has usually picked up her share of married men . |
| 9 | CLT has still to make up its mind . |
| 10 | Peter Dods was captain in the midweek games but , like Sole , the Gala fullback has also hung up his boots . |
| 11 | But there are moments when one is not sure whether Mr Duroselle has really made up his mind who belongs with the Europeans and who does not . |
| 12 | From all that he has told me it was a terrible experience , but he has now set up his Foundation to help other sufferers , and this is a great joy to him . |
| 13 | It has now tightened up its financial procedures . |
| 14 | Kim has now given up her job as audio producer to dedicate her life to Bronson . |
| 15 | The Law Commission has now taken up our suggestion , which it terms ‘ divorce by process over time ’ , in its discussion paper Facing the Future . |
| 16 | SunSoft Inc has reportedly moved up its Solaris 2.1 symmetric multi-processing announcement : we 're now told to expect it the week of November 2 . |
| 17 | She has even given up her beloved Russian , learnt painstakingly with the help of an old Cyrillic typewriter . |
| 18 | France has unquestionably built up something of a lead in this area . |
| 19 | The use of words also helps to bring across the message of the poem with words such as ‘ futility ’ and ‘ fatuous ’ giving the distinct impression that Wilfred Owen has almost given up everything that he once believed in because he feels that everyone is going to kill each other anyway . |
| 20 | It will be compliant with the OSF/1 operating system , but does not include the Mach microkernel , a point Apple is adamant about , as it has yet to make up its mind on the issue of microkernel strategy . |
| 21 | But the bishop has yet to make up his mind about a successor . ’ |
| 22 | He was certainly not purporting to compile a representative list of ‘ extra-hazardous ’ activities — though one of the fundamental problems about Rylands v. Fletcher is perhaps that the law has never made up its mind whether the rule is aimed at such activities . |
| 23 | Ruddock has considerably cleaned up his act since collecting two dismissals and a string of bookings with Southampton early last season . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd better make up your mind . ’ |
| 25 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 26 | But she 'd already made up her mind . |
| 27 | And on the second count , now that she 'd virtually made up her mind to visit the warehouse tonight , did she really want to discover the truth , after all … ? |
| 28 | He 'd reluctantly given up his ambition to become a pro footballer — ’ it did n't work out , basically , because of politics . |
| 29 | Turner may have finally made up his mind to move after being dropped from the Newbridge side which travelled to Swansea on Saturday after Newport announced he was on his way to Rodney Parade . |
| 30 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |