Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason being that having given up ten percent of their blood roughly , er in the blood donation if they then continue to erm smoke afterwards , they they 'll knock another ten percent of what 's left out . |
| 2 | She has three children , one under the age of one , and has to come up four flights of stairs to her home many times a day . |
| 3 | His son , Bill , works in the glost ovens department at Barlaston and has notched up 48 years with the company . |
| 4 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 5 | A good choice could give you years of pleasure : the oldest authenticated Koi was a Higoi owned by Dr Komei Koshihara which , at the time of its death in 1968 , weighed 16½ lb and had clocked up 217 years . |