Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up one of the cloths and helped her . |
| 2 | I picked up one of the old models for a good price , but the new style is still reasonable . |
| 3 | Mines would be grouped into seven holding companies to force profitable pits to support loss-makers , which made up two-thirds of the 63 mines . |
| 4 | Prices vary as follows on the items shown — Elkhorn Coral £19.99 ; Lettuce Coral £18.20 ; Flower Coral £31.99 ; Cup Coral large £9.25 ; Cup Coral small £5.60 ; and Blue Tube Sponge £13.36 ( which make up one of the special deals ) and a giant Elkhorn Coral which retails at £41.50 . |
| 5 | But it is Mansell 's unexpected prowess on the oval circuits , which make up six of the 16 races in the Indycar championship , which has been most impressive . |
| 6 | No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe . |
| 7 | It 's when you pick up one of the guns , feel the metal , that their potentiality strikes you , and you marvel at the precision and care put into them . |
| 8 | It is in short the question of the economic status and opportunities of those who make up seven-eighths of the community , not of any submerged residuum … |
| 9 | The co-leaders receive excellent support from trumpeter Terell Stafford , pianist Ed Simon and bass player Essiet Essiet , who make up one of the most consistently brilliant — but still under-valued — bands on the jazz scene . |
| 10 | Ever since a military coup overthrew the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 , the indigenous Mayan people , who make up two-thirds of the population of eight million , have suffered widespread , brutal and systematic oppression at the hands of a Spanish speaking minority . |
| 11 | She snatched up one of the spears racked handy beside the hearth , and her father ducked fast as it slashed just over his head into a tapestry hanging above the fire , cut a two-foot gash in Saint Peter 's side and raised a shower of sparks . |
| 12 | They will attack anyone who picks up one of the instruments . |
| 13 | The pool is filled with water and bubbles and the kids scoot down the slide attached to the climbing frame into the bubble bath and the arms of a playworker who picks up one of the children and kisses his little red bum . |
| 14 | She picked up one of the wire baskets that were stacked outside the supermarket and gave him a selfconscious , defiant stare . |
| 15 | Then , at random almost , she picked up one of the other cuttings , which showed Harriet Shakespeare 's plain , squashed face looking white and distraught and pitiful as she leaned against a friend 's arm . |
| 16 | Annoyed , she picked up one of the cans — and dropped it again . |
| 17 | She picked up one of the coins to look more closely and , in doing so , sent a ten pence piece spinning and rolling against the floorboards . |
| 18 | She picked up one of the crumpled scraps of paper and began staring fixedly at the pictures on it . |
| 19 | She picked up one of the chairs . |
| 20 | We drove up one of the steep hills which look down on the city and are encircled by walls and bastions ( built by the great sixteenth-century architect Michele Sanmichele ) to the house where I was going to live . |
| 21 | Melinda waded out after me and we climbed up one of the mooring ropes on to the deck . |
| 22 | So we picked up one of the little floaters provided at the port , and went exploring . |
| 23 | They made up two-thirds of the membership during the period of rapid growth between 1905 and 1907 , and during the reaction of 1907–10 workers came to the fore in local party organizations across the country . |
| 24 | They made up one of the ten elite ‘ Strike Force ’ teams , all top field operatives who had been siphoned off from police , military and intelligence services around the world . |
| 25 | It made up one of the most satisfying compositions of all American stations . |
| 26 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 27 | Then when we went on the train to Italy and all the way through France and Switzerland he chatted up one of the Marias , and when I tipped his minestrone soup over his head on Milan station he said : ‘ You 'll have to excuse my wife , she 's just an ignorant peasant . ’ |
| 28 | He was speaking at the Age Resource Awards ceremony in London where he mixed up three of the commendations , much to the amusement of the mainly elderly audience . |
| 29 | Has he signed up one of the most formidable Arabs to ride for his expanding pro team ? |
| 30 | After qualifying , he settled at Bath , where he set up one of the first acute psychiatric units in a general hospital in the country . |