Example sentences of "up [prep] the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before lining up for the first race of the season it 's off to the now-standard bits-and-bobs shop , where you can spend up to $100,000 upgrading your jalopy . |
| 2 | Even the best performers sometimes get a tickle in their throats — Jose Carreras warming up for the first night of the Sudeley Summer Festival . |
| 3 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 4 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted . |
| 5 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 6 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 7 | To catch up with the first part of the competition , the August issue can be obtained from our Back Issues Service , see p51 . |
| 8 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 9 | You see , he had signed up with the second battalion of the Royal Fusiliers . |
| 10 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 11 | These feelings can build up into the next repeat of the same interchange . |
| 12 | Julian Sands plays a dissipated Swiss ; Ian Holm an American writer ; and Judy Davis pops up in the second leg of her dual role as Holm 's wife , with whom Weller has incredibly kinky rubber-monster sex . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've just got to get our heads up in the second half of the season and go all out to qualify for Europe again . ’ |
| 14 | They can make a decent case that economic growth will pick up in the second half of the year . |
| 15 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 16 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 17 | STANTONDALE were two up in the first quarter of an hour through Graham Dodd and man of the match Paul Diamond before Carl Thomasson reduced the lead shortly before half-time . |
| 18 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 19 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 20 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 21 | ‘ The one positive sign I 've seen recently is that public sector spending was up in the third quarter of 1993 . ’ |
| 22 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 23 | Mr Mortimer popped up in the last episode of the seventh series of Rumpole as a guest at Mr Justice Oliphant 's lunch . |
| 24 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 25 | Kaiserslautern , 3-1 up from the first leg of this second round tie , twice hit Trevor Francis 's team on the break in the second half . |
| 26 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 27 | Artemis had been busy drawing , sitting on the window seat of the nursery , high up on the third floor of the family wing . |
| 28 | up on the last year of the Labour Government . |
| 29 | Blake then went up to the second floor of the block and along to the main window . |
| 30 | I guess it 's probably just that he glide up to the second part of the diphthong , has been displaced so you 've just got the first part of it left , |