Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] up the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 2 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 3 | I could n't see anything from road level because of the hedgerow but as I started up the second switch of the hill , I noticed an Escort estate car parked on the left opposite the police barrier . |
| 4 | ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting . |
| 5 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 6 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 7 | ‘ You went up the next morning . |
| 8 | She picked up the second carrier bag and saw me to the door with it . |
| 9 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 10 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 11 | There were three letters and an electricity bill addressed to Mrs Emma Funnell , three circulars and — she picked up the last envelope — a cheap blue paper one and addressed to herself , not as Mrs Margaret Jones , but Mrs Peggy Jones . |
| 12 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 13 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 14 | They turned up the next street . |
| 15 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 16 | Showing that their displays are appropriate for all types of buildings they picked up the third prize for their display at the Marriott Hotel also in Dyce . |
| 17 | Naturally he he wanted to keep his place open and when he got up the next morning somebody had painted the side of the van completely over . |
| 18 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 19 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 20 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 21 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 22 | When I told Malc , he turned up the next night with a gift-wrapped teddy for the baby . |
| 23 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 24 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 25 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 26 | He held up the second finger . |
| 27 | He held up the third finger . |
| 28 | The combination roared along Castle Walk , echoing into the empty courtyard of the Berkeley Hunt kennels as it careered up the last hill into the tiny village . |
| 29 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |
| 30 | He picked up the third book that he had thrown . |