Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [num ord] [adj] [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 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 Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open .
4 ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’
5 He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms .
6 I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter .
7 Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) .
8 Pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 2 and 3 ( one already on needle 2 ) .
9 Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition .
10 Below Georgiades his men leapt up the last few pegs .
11 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 .
12 She felt his warm stickiness on her tongue , and rolled it around her mouth before placing her lips over the tip of his dying penis to suck up the last few drops .
13 She struggled up the last few yards and arrived at his side breathless .
14 ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says .
15 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 .
16 Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third .
17 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 .
18 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 …
19 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 .
20 It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown .
21 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 .
22 A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose !
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