Example sentences of "[verb] up the [num ord] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all . |
2 | The classic one involves picking up stitches with your transfer tool , knitting about seven or eight rows , picking up the next three stitches and repeating along your edge . |
3 | ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’ |
4 | Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) . |
5 | Pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 2 and 3 ( one already on needle 2 ) . |
6 | Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition . |
7 | To do the line justice , it would take up the next six issues , so I intend to show you only some of the more interesting such as the First Class blank Privilege Ticket . |
8 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
9 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
10 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
11 | What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters . |
12 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
13 | Laboriously the little creature laced up the last two strands of an otherwise perfect web , checked to see every strand was in place , then scuttled to the centre and sat there waiting . |
14 | In the case of Papua , there are several more , so we will have to bring up the next three sections and place them into stitch patterns A , B and C again and knit through these , before re-programming once again . |