Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [noun sg] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | BRITAIN 'S big banks stirred up a storm last night after threatening to charge customers for using their own money . |
2 | it feels like , I went up the club last week and there , cos er , we did n't come in here and er |
3 | The Bishop , who only took up the post last march , was advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a rest from his official duties . |
4 | Ouseley , who took up the post last week , was Britain 's first black local authority chief executive , appointed in Lambeth three years ago . |
5 | Mr Chris Brasher , the race chairman , cleared up the confusion last night , saying : ‘ There was a misunderstanding . |
6 | In spite of many buckets of water , it gave up the struggle last summer and had to be cut down . |
7 | Unix System Laboratories sewed up a deal last week with IBM to port Tuxedo to AIX on the ES/9000 mainframe , Blue 's $60,000 to $23m machine . |
8 | If that had n't worked I 'd have tried something else , but , rather to my surprise , you snapped up the bait first time … ’ |