Example sentences of "up one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governors of the Mines Royal decided to send up one Captain Thomas Whitmore to investigate , and if possible , educe some means of reviving them … but there is no evidence of any real improvement . |
| 2 | She brought up one leg and wrapped it around his thighs , thereby giving his marauding fingers easier access to the haven between her legs . |
| 3 | Caroline hitched her bottom on to the wide windowsill , put up one leg , and leaned back against the frame . |
| 4 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 5 | She had a daughter , Rosemary Worty , who looked up to me because I locked her up one night . |
| 6 | Someone beat him up one night . |
| 7 | If I do n't turn up one night , |
| 8 | And that 's when he said he said I 'll be going up one night when it 's dark he said . |
| 9 | Look , we 'll come up one night , one Friday night |
| 10 | Woke up one night and I heard this voice er ca n't remember what you said now no hey ! |
| 11 | Turn the heating up one night thinking it 's gon na be cold in the morning , ha |
| 12 | WAKING UP one Sunday morning , my first thought was of more sleep and consequently not bothering to go to the deanery day that had been organised in our area . |
| 13 | All had been recruited by Elaine and gave up one Sunday afternoon to complete the circular route around Kilmarnock for which they were sponsored . |
| 14 | Generally , eight bit-planes make up one memory bank so that a value between 0 and 255 inclusive ( 00000000 to 11111111 in base 2 notation , described in Chapter 1 ) can be stored at each pixel position for the three primary colours of red , green and blue . |
| 15 | Pick up one edge of band with wrong side facing you . |
| 16 | Iron and steel make up one quarter of Luxembourg 's national income . |
| 17 | Bulkhead pontoons and rafts were also produced alongside these Assault Boats , the whole taking up one bay in the Wagon Shop . |
| 18 | It takes your body about an hour , on average , to burn up one unit of alcohol , such as half a pint of beer . |
| 19 | Brian Graham ( Squashtec ) and Tommy Taylor ( Durham SC ) both had to move up one position and lost in straight games to second string John Warwick and third string Dennis Baines respectively . |
| 20 | It still had many of the characteristics of a lounge — cluttered bookshelves took up one wall of the room . |
| 21 | A brief isolation in his room sweetens up one child in five minutes . |
| 22 | They build up one structure which breaks down and flows into another . |
| 23 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course we are , ’ Ross told them , bending down to pick up one twin and then the other . |
| 25 | Locking up ONE tearaway could mean council cuts . |
| 26 | President Jacques Attali will argue that the bank , which was set up one year ago and before the break-up of the Soviet Union , needs new forms of financing to meet the growing economic crisis in the former republics , although he has insisted that the bank 's problem is not limited overall resources but the lack of suitable projects to finance . |
| 27 | In a similar study of the closure of Cane Hill Hospital in south London , of 103 patients followed up one year after discharge , none had become homeless . |
| 28 | The scheme swept up one problem but shovelled others under the carpet . |
| 29 | In his foreword to the book , Professor Sir Robert Birley says of Janet Lacey : ‘ One meets energetic people and unorthodox people and efficient people , but it is rare to meet them making up one person … add to that the power to speak forcefully and clearly … she was the first woman to preach in St Paul 's and Liverpool Cathedral and St George 's Cathedral in Jerusalem … she is also exceedingly good company … |
| 30 | He can only pick up one person and throw him two metres … |