Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [adj] [num] [noun pl] " 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 Republicans also picked up an estimated 14,000 votes from the Social Democrats and yet more from people who have not bothered to vote before . |
| 3 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 4 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |
| 5 | Projections suggest that FUNCINPEC will have 57 seats in Cambodia 's constituent assembly , against the CPP 's 52 , with minor parties picking up the remaining 11 seats . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’ |
| 8 | The shock can have a sudden and lasting effect ; the woman 's energy is no longer channelled into her appearance , and it seems as if she has made up the extra ten years , and more , all at once . |
| 9 | Darren Pearce 's Sapphire 1.8 LX has racked up a remarkable 112,000 miles in four years without missing a beat — and without regular servicing |
| 10 | Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) . |
| 11 | Pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 2 and 3 ( one already on needle 2 ) . |
| 12 | Finally Selwyn College , Cambridge offered me a scholarship , Berkshire County Council doubled this amount , and the Ordination Candidates Fund made up the two hundred pounds per annum necessary for university life in 1921 . |
| 13 | Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition . |
| 14 | Friends set up a ten thousand pounds reward for any information in the inquiry . |
| 15 | Its atmosphere takes up the outermost 600 miles of its 38,000 mile radius , and is mostly hydrogen , with some methane ( CH 2 ) , ethene ( C 2 H 2 ) and ammonia ( NH 3 ) , plus water vapour ( H 2 O ) and phosphine ( Ph 3 ) . |
| 16 | In his 33 games , he has called up a staggering 76 players and used 56 of them . |
| 17 | This means that if you do an hour 's vigorous exercise instead of sitting in a chair for an hour , you could burn up an extra 100–200 calories which would not have otherwise been used up . |
| 18 | But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings . |
| 19 | Added together , the BBC1 and ITV election results specials will take up a mere 12–14 hours , depending on the state of play at 4am . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 22 | It whacks up a massive 17 points for all this . |
| 23 | Her impression of a bleak , high-ceilinged room was confirmed when she entered : the hall took up the top two storeys of the three-storey building . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
| 25 | That the 25 groups making up the 15 000 hunter-gatherers of the Philippine Negritos practise minor desultory cultivation and intensive trading with non-Negrito agriculturists is not recent as has often been argued , for eighteenth-century reports indicate trade of forest products for rice , tobacco , metal tools , beads and pots , as well as shifting cultivation by the 1740s at the latest . |
| 26 | The shares are now just 2.5p , so you could pick up a massive 4,000 shares for £100 before brokers fees . |
| 27 | So without knowing any more than you knew when you sat the exam , you could pick up an extra three marks there . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 30 | 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 . |