Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 2 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 3 | So far , more than 2,000 bodies picked up in the border area have been sent back to their families . |
| 4 | A dim lamp swung over the entrance where three steps led up into the foyer . |
| 5 | A woman and three children got up from the table as I entered the room . |
| 6 | Around three Talbot came up to the library with a telephone-set in his hand . |
| 7 | Police say a car containing three men drew up outside the house in Hudson Street . |
| 8 | At £115 ( today a first edition set of Birds of Australia is worth in excess of £150,000 ) 283 subscribers signed up for the privilege of owning a copy . |
| 9 | We used his PA system which was a bit ramshackle , but it worked — that was the main thing — and about 25 people turned up in the little mock Tudor , oak panelled dining room that was part of The Three Tuns pub in Beckenham . |
| 10 | On August 22nd only 6000 people turned up to the London demonstration called by the Special Conference . |
| 11 | The informants were then given a list of 50 items made up of the names of writers and book titles , arranged in alphabetical order . |
| 12 | After a lengthy period of looking , one respondent ended up with the following list of constructs : |
| 13 | One finger pointed up to the bright flood-light that was showing me all this . |
| 14 | Women 's occupational ‘ choices ’ were limited and these five occupations predominated up to the time of World War II and well beyond it . |
| 15 | The wind was strengthening in their faces , and more than one man looked up at the sky in puzzlement . |
| 16 | Cells in North Yorkshire have also been used for the operation and there are currently 28 prisoners locked up in the region 's jails . |
| 17 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 18 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 19 | There they found two boats tied up alongside the wharf , waiting to unload their cargo of dolphin corpses . |
| 20 | Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events . |
| 21 | We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again . |
| 22 | Two thousand , seven hundred people turned up for the opening session of Object World ‘ 92 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago , Katy Ring was one of them . |
| 23 | The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass . |
| 24 | Just 20 minutes before , about 60 heavyweight Congress I supporters in three or four jeeps roared up to the unprotected station in a whirlwind of dust . |
| 25 | Their four children grew up in the strict but loving atmosphere of the Medau College founded by Hinrich in Berlin in 1929 . |
| 26 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 27 | At the end of one recent service , a message from a clairvoyant told of three men suffering from chest pains ; not three but four sufferers stepped up to the altar to be healed . |
| 28 | Half an hour before the match started two tractors pulled up at the swing bridge , the drivers got out and had a short discussion and proceeded to plough up the field opposite my peg . |
| 29 | He hopes to have around 400 pubs snapped up by the end of the year . |
| 30 | About 20 travellers turned up at the court as one of their group , Gary Frost , 28 , father of a year-old daughter , was due to appear from custody . |