Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | But he wants it to go up one percent . |
| 3 | Jane says they end up THREE YEARS behind — |
| 4 | I know it went up two steps . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her marriage broke up in 1985 , leaving her to bring up seven children alone and she worked with local women 's theatre group , Charabanc , on a freelance basis . |