Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] up the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 a facility for drawing up the next plan in the light of the
2 The 31-year-old Biasion pushed his new 16-valve Delta Integrale to the limit in making up the half-a-second per kilometre he needed in the fourth and final overnight stage .
3 It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims .
4 You can ‘ fool ’ the drive by covering up the second capacity signalling hole .
5 The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow .
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