Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've rung up about ninety miles so far . ’ |
| 2 | He took to picking up pretty young girls just so that he could complain about her . |
| 3 | We have an infrastructure that 's been built up over twenty years so er and you 've read our brochure and I hope it 's it was as impressive to you as it is to most people . |
| 4 | The show is in the Fine Arts Museum , one of several grandiose public buildings put up about 100 years ago , when the Congo trade brought Antwerp new wealth . |
| 5 | James displayed the long-awaited tactical skill needed to vitalize the team formation drawn up nearly five years before , and with Lambert finding new flair at centre-forward , one of the most famous attacking lines of all time had been forged . |
| 6 | Yet even when she had been paid he would still have about double his normal wage — ten shillings , or even less in this village when the contract was drawn up about eighty years ago ; and there were the allowances in addition . |
| 7 | I do n't know all the details , but he turned up here several weeks ago . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd given up about three weeks before but I was ready to beg from him . |
| 9 | ‘ Is that why you 're using up so much energy now ? ’ |
| 10 | Suddenly , it popped up not 80 yards away . |
| 11 | A snail farm which was set up just three years ago is now the second largest in Britain . |
| 12 | The Graduate School of Business was set up over 10 years ago by the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie . |
| 13 | The flat fee , which has remained the same since the company was set up over three years ago , has proved to be a winner with both buyers and sellers . |
| 14 | Glenand was set up almost eleven years ago on the initiative of a group of local people to service the community , to provide jobs for local people and to provide training for young people in the Andersonstown and Glen Road areas ( hence the name — Glen And ) . |
| 15 | No ; I am taking up too much time already . |
| 16 | Did you come up here last night like ? |
| 17 | ‘ If I did n't know it was impossible , I 'd swear you 'd cooked up this little plot deliberately . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Me and her mother split up about two years ago . |
| 19 | The growth of stalagmites resumed on top of this fresh deposit when the climate warmed up around 18,000 years ago . |
| 20 | We ended up almost two hours late . |
| 21 | One CD manufacturing plant set up just seven years ago today produced its one hundred millionth disc … the band Go West were there to see their music make history . |
| 22 | The guiding hand behind the work of collecting and saving these objects is that of Evelyn Friedlander , executive director of the Hidden Legacy Foundation , set up around four years ago . |
| 23 | Bernard and Apricot , at his suggestion , sat up all one night together when Ken was away to prove that the apparition of Wendy appeared in Rhoda 's head , and nowhere else . |