Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] up [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I decided to give up one sugar and you know , I have to take it sort of weak weaker anyway . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to pick up two bikes from Stockton and , because I could n't park outside my shop , I got soaked in heavy rain wheeling them in . ’ |
| 3 | I 've lived in London all my life , and I 've built up three businesses from scratch . ’ |
| 4 | I 've saved up twenty dollars in |
| 5 | Actually , it 's a very pleasant way to work — I 've set up one room for word processing and another for screenshot manipulation , so I can switch back and forth between the two whilst I 'm writing captions . |
| 6 | I wish to pick up one matter from his speech — that of dyslexia . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , it 's a bit early , but I have dug up one piece of information that you 'll enjoy . |
| 8 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 9 | She says bringing up three children plus two career moves her husband works for a computer firm strung out her studies . |
| 10 | She was annoyed to discover that Wendy was not in fact married to Ken : it meant she had to tear up one certificate and start making out another . |
| 11 | You have to fill up ten tapes . |
| 12 | It is also very preparation for climbing , since balance and swing are crucial , especially when you have to swing up six feet and balance on a ledge no wider than a fingernail … . and as for amateur dramatics — you should see some of our training sessions ! |
| 13 | Er in Europe we 've gone up six percent in circulation and in Japan we 're on target there and under budget . |
| 14 | ‘ Tom , we 've gone up three flights . |
| 15 | We need to catch up 4 points . |
| 16 | He and Adam went into the house where they managed to scrounge up fifteen quid between the two of them , leaving them with just enough to cover the petrol for Goblander to get home on . |
| 17 | He said I 've made twenty pounds overnight so that 's , yeah they 've gone up twenty P each cos I 've got a hundred |
| 18 | Alan Heath science teacher says the girls learn more about life than anything else they 've grown up three years in one day purring along behind the girls are one of 20 teams from Japan … this one is the cat 's whiskers … |
| 19 | There were six other octogenarians also in attendance and between them they had notched up 170 years service with P&O companies . |
| 20 | Since then he has picked up 20 disqualifications and has served 12 jail sentences . |
| 21 | Dotted around the 50-mile long island are Stallone 's five hideaways which he began buying up 10 years ago . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On the other hand , Burton stoutly denied that he had broken up nine marriages : why , he did not even know three of the couples aforementioned . |
| 24 | He had stayed up three nights researching south-east Asia for a speech planned for a big demonstration against the Vietnam War . |
| 25 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 26 | Although he had managed to complete " East Coker " there , his duties as an air-raid warden were becoming too arduous for him — he had to sit up two nights each week , and his general loss of sleep made any kind of work more difficult . |
| 27 | He had notched up 65 shots on this round so far and his total for the tournament was already 272 . |
| 28 | He wanted to set up seventy-five gatherings a year ! |
| 29 | In the last half hour , it 's gone up 6 inches . |