Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was second nature to weigh up a situation and draw conclusions but this was not just another news story , this was different . |
| 2 | Eventually , in what would then have been interpreted as a generous gesture on the part of the Poor Law authorities , the wife was freed in order to give her a second chance to build up a home . |
| 3 | Leroy Burrell , whose storming second leg set up the Yanks for their 37.40 seconds power show in the relay , commented : ‘ Carl is in better shape than anybody who came to Barcelona . |
| 4 | The second statement sums up the News International ban precisely , and the following sentence reflects the dilemma that was faced by many librarians in the dispute ; though not by all , because for many librarians who supported the ban there was no dilemma . |
| 5 | Admired and rejected , the primitive rite is also linked with the city ; the isolated last line of the poem 's second section summons up the field and its dancing , leading to a juxtaposition with the urban world which follows . |
| 6 | To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection . |
| 7 | I hope that the British Council will give its fullest support to ventures of this kind in the future , and will encourage the group which met at Jaipur in their plan to hold a second Workshop to follow up the work of this one . |
| 8 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 9 | That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out . |
| 10 | The first try lit up the ground in the 23rd minute and followed two surging drives . |
| 11 | The first attempt to drive up the cost of travelling by road brought down the government . |
| 12 | In Europe the first attempt to set up a GaAs digital chip production base in under way , inspired by the French company Thompson CSF . |
| 13 | It was the first company to set up a coal depot to supply the capital , displacing with railway coal the hitherto pre-eminent ‘ sea coal ’ . |
| 14 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 15 | Heavy seas early in the twentieth century washed up a number of whales along Whitsand Bay . |
| 16 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 17 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 18 | LENNOX LEWIS last night lined up a world title fight with Norwich-based Herbie Hide as the cat-and-mouse game over the heavyweight championship took a new twist . |
| 19 | LENNIE LAWRENCE last night snapped up the youngster tipped to be another David Platt . |
| 20 | The report follows hot on the heels of the move by financier George Soros , the man who is said to have made £1 billion speculating on the collapse of sterling on Black Wednesday , who last month tied up a £500m investment with property giant British Land . |
| 21 | The first-hand reports from former prisoners spurred America to ask the United Nations last week to set up a war crimes commission . |
| 22 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA last week picked up a plum UK contract when it was chosen to be the as the prime contractor for a contract worth up to £100m for an administrative computing infrastructure for British Army sites worldwide . |
| 23 | As the Leader of the Opposition has joined us , perhaps he will use his influence on the four members of his party who voted last week to cover up the truth by refusing to permit the Select Committee on Employment to conduct an investigation into the true consequences of a national minimum wage . |
| 24 | She also asked Pamela to try again during the next week to draw up a list of ways she would like her parents to change . |
| 25 | Maybe his mother would have organized a dinner party , invited the girl next door to make up the numbers . |
| 26 | The three bodies last year put up a total of £245,000 of the event 's total cost of more than £300,000 . |
| 27 | In a statement the RJO said that it had decided to free Mann because of the " immense efforts " of the UN Secretary-General , and that his release would " be the prelude for the next stage to speed up the closure of the file of the prisoners and the hostages " . |
| 28 | Once one has established a ‘ profile ’ of theatre-goers it is then an obvious next step to follow up the question ‘ Who ? ’ with the question ‘ Why ? ’ and the research then begins to fill in the gaps in our knowledge . |
| 29 | There is a facility in that for people who choose a home that has a higher charge , to arrange a third party to make up the difference , and we have a number of those , those type of contracts . |