Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for 5–6 hours topping up the saucepan with boiling water from time to time . |
| 2 | The 2 friends took up the tandem around 5 months ago especially for the race . |
| 3 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 4 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 5 | In January 1990 the UN Security Council agreed to extend the mandate for a further two months of the detachment of 40 officers from 10 countries making up the UN Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan ( UNGOMAP ) , created to monitor the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan as well as other aspects of the Geneva Accords of 1988 . |
| 6 | will go straight out the window and they wo n't bother with us , a very short time it 's taken five I mean six years to build up the credibility |
| 7 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 8 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 9 | THE SOVIET UNION is supplying the Afghan government with another 2,000 trucks to step up the supply of food , fuel and ammunition to Kabul 's 1.5 million people before the winter snows affect the roads . |
| 10 | Group official Carol Bouziane said yesterday : ‘ Three muggers beat up the man and stole his money and mobile phone in full view of two booking clerks . |
| 11 | It means that there are holes in the DLV's willingness to connect up the evidence and enforce the conclusions it generates . |
| 12 | my three wishes sucked up a chimney of flame . |
| 13 | A J-C-B digger was brought in , but it still took more than three hours to clear up the mess . |
| 14 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 15 | A dozen books took up the space of three dozen nomes , and while Grimma privately thought that some of the books were more useful than many of the nomes , she 'd accepted Dorcas 's promise that they would come back , one day , and try to retrieve them from their hiding place under the floor . |
| 16 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 17 | Each of the three hypotheses making up the theory of determinism to be expounded in the first part of this book has to do with mental events , which is to say events within consciousness . |
| 18 | Half a dozen geese waddled up the bank . |
| 19 | It was obvious from the moment she came into the house that Dawn , as I 'd immediately christened her ( after all , I 'd had three weeks to dream up the name ) , was a real character . |
| 20 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | I spent three days plucking up the courage . |
| 22 | " Yon " just happened to be three WAAFs toiling up the brae each with a kit bag . |
| 23 | The three partners set up the Viscose Syndicate in 1893 , with the aim of producing adhesives , films , coatings for natural fibres , and mouldings , and British Viscoid Ltd. followed in 1896 . |
| 24 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 25 | In addition , the three-digit minimum of the Dewey system has been contracted to eliminate unnecessary zeros , and the decimal point appears after every three digits to break up the number . |
| 26 | With the deaths of Parent and Brassey in 1870 Buddicom wound up the partnership . |
| 27 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 28 | She then told me what she said she had already told the police and that there was no harm in telling me , to wit that Froggy had given her nearly two thousand quid to do up the kitchen and bathroom . ’ |
| 29 | But in 1908 Edison set up the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ) , which included among its aims an increase in the share of the US market taken by domestic productions . |
| 30 | I got into the car ; we started to reverse the fifty yards back up the drive . |