Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] up [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years .
2 ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair .
3 He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again .
4 By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead .
5 The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces .
6 ‘ Do n't tempt me , ’ she said with a wry laugh , and picked up the next file .
7 After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies .
8 When the selected pile alone remained , he switched on a powerful reading spotlamp above the table , took a jeweller 's loupe from his pocket , a pair of tweezers in his right hand , and held up the first stone to the light .
9 Being obliged to earn a living without intermission , Jane had no time to pick and choose , but snapped up the first offer — on a woman 's magazine .
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