Example sentences of "up a [noun sg] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can usually pick up a ball with one hand , but as I was laying over the ball , I had to use both hands to pick it up , and already a Cardiff forward was rushing down on me . |
| 2 | Whenever the Fedpol think they 've built up a case on one world or another , they find platoons of sharp lawyers appearing , kilocreds are spent , evidence vanishes , witnesses have strange accidents … |
| 3 | The narrator took up a position to one side of the loudspeaker , and the listeners were challenged to guess which was which as alternate lines were delivered . |
| 4 | The wide , chiselled mouth tilted up a fraction at one side as he detected her dismay . |
| 5 | we have set up a network of 31 drug liaison officers , in 19 different countries , tracking the international drugs traffickers who threaten Britain with their trade . |
| 6 | Schank [ 1972 ] drew up a list of 12-15 primitive actions that he claims underlie the meaning of all active verbs , of which a number are listed below : |
| 7 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 8 | Prepare the ground as already described , then make up a mix of 1 cement to 5 sand , with a minimum of water . |