Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [noun sg] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE GOVERNMENT and army drew up a secret 50-60 point peace plan in a bid to get the IRA to extend its Christmas ceasefire . |
| 2 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 3 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 4 | Once we have agreed the contents with him we will be in a position to drawn up a Phase 1 contract in which we intend to concentrate on making the sanctuary wind and watertight that will allow us to begin work on the interior alterations . |
| 5 | Carefully open up the diskette three point five inches for the best effect and it 's like my Amiga one remove the top covering from the inside , scrape a lot of match powder into a bowl match powder . |
| 6 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 7 | In his 22 years in the ring , Chiyonofuji racked up a record 1,045 wins and 31 Emperor 's Cups — just one short of the record held by his celebrated predecessor , Taiho . |
| 8 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 9 | On the television screen , we would see the moving scanner building up a picture 25 times each second . |
| 10 | It was a wonderful feeling to put up an affirmative two fingers as the mechanic helped me taxi in . |
| 11 | Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud . |
| 12 | Still riding the crest of that foaming wave , she took up a microphone one day and sang an old classic , which caught the ear of a sharp record producer who would very soon launch her as a pop star . |
| 13 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 14 | A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago . |
| 15 | For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it . |
| 16 | THE London Monarchs made the sort of World League history they could do without when they gave up a record eight turnovers in Saturday 's 13–7 defeat at Barcelona Dragons . |
| 17 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 18 | Apart from the insults , and setting up a Formula I race-circuit in Jerez , Mr Pacheco 's record of social change is unremarkable . |
| 19 | And all the while the shadow of the Bomb grew longer as the most powerful nations on earth stockpiled enough megatonnes to blow up the world fifty times over . |
| 20 | I set up a solicitor two months after I 'd finished the the assignment . |
| 21 | Tom , a professional engineer , set up the company 5 years ago after being made redundant for the third time . |
| 22 | Italy 's monarchy set up the agency 100 years ago to provide services to some 90 regional consortia that helped farmers and food companies sell their output and buy supplies . |
| 23 | Roofer Clive Tibbett clocked up an ear-shattering 118.7 decibels in the shouting match — louder than a pneumatic drill and just short of the world record and the noise of a jet . |
| 24 | It might also be an idea to wire up a linesman one day to record the 90 minutes of bile emanating from both benches . |
| 25 | I picked up a number 8 brush and with bluey brown paint I drew the windows , and used a rough line to tell me where the plant at the front was . |
| 26 | After 18 months of this baptism of fire , he picked up a paper one night and read about a proposed new daily newspaper in Dublin , the Irish Press . |
| 27 | You ca n't just dig up a magnolia one July day and put it in the gap left by the camellia — it will die rather quickly . |