Example sentences of "he [verb] up the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 2 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 3 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 4 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 5 | ( a not unusual event ) he leaps up the six flights of stairs and arrives at the top as cool as a cucumber , followed by a very out-of-breath Orderly Officer . |