Example sentences of "[verb] up the [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I sometimes stand there in the darkness for a moment , watching them , putting off the moment when I walk up the five tessellated steps to the front door .
2 Each of the four poems has five sections , and each of the sections reflects upon its counterparts in the other poems ; just as each poem develops and resolves its theme , so " Little Gidding " gathers up the three preceding ones in a magisterial synthesis .
3 The annual number of night visits was obtained by adding up the four quarterly totals ending in September in each year .
4 Three charges are probably enough for seeing the general trend so we shall now sum up the two partial energies
5 From the vibration on the rope it felt like somebody was jumaring up the 300 tiring feet back into sunshine — some prussik !
6 Clarks Yard is soon to be put on the market as part of Darlington council 's bid to spruce up the three historic yards between High Row and Skinnergate .
7 The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture .
8 LONG promised evening off tonight for Kay Kirkham , pointing up the three cornered fight in Stockton South for the Lib-Dems .
9 Kirin Brewery Co has set up the 25,000 square metre Hokuriku beer park which is open to the public and can brew up to 1m hectolitres of beer per year .
10 There were only 500,000 TV sets ( 1957 ( and 50 per cent of Frenchmen could not pick up the one black-and-white channel : but politicians perceived the potential of what was to become — under de Gaulle — a mass medium .
11 He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot .
12 Their conduct amounted to insulting behaviour ( it insulted the women ! ) which may have occasioned a breach of the peace ( the partners of the women might have beaten up the two male lovers ) .
13 Senior Sea King pilot Lt Cmdr George Wallace spoke of the shelling as he picked up the two injured men .
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