Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 2 | Punters on the Nevsky Prospekt are asked to cough up 50 roubles for a single cone , or about 50p at the official exchange rate — a luxury for people making roughly £15 a week . |
| 3 | If a patient is requested to hold up one arm and to count aloud during injection of the drug , the arm on the side contralateral to the side of injection collapses as the drug takes effect . |
| 4 | Shrimp farming currently takes up 5,500 hectares and is projected to take up 15,000 hectares by 1995 . |
| 5 | OUR daughter is trying to bring up three children on £8,000 a year and has to pay £800 of that in income tax . |
| 6 | I felt I was going to wake up one day and it would all be over . |
| 7 | So , I mean , they was trying to come up one day so I could watch the telly and I really needed to . |
| 8 | The patient was lost to follow up two years later until her daughter ( 301 ) presented to the oral medicine department . |