Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's Paul Curran escaped as the race entered Liverpool but after opening up a 10-second gap , he was caught by Illingworth , Australia 's Patrick Jonker and Denmark 's Kim Marcussen as they entered the circuit with 11 miles to go . |
| 2 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | She drew up a second chair and came and sat by him . |
| 4 | As a result of the rigidity of the museum 's directors , Magritte 's widow drew up a second will , and the new provisions were recognised as valid . |
| 5 | Ms Cann accordingly drew up a second deal , which accounted for all the different royalties ( television , merchandising and so forth ) separately . |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair . |
| 7 | After a few minutes , the door reopened and Eddie returned with a mug of tea , drew up a third chair and sat down . |
| 8 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 9 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 10 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 11 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 12 | The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over . |
| 13 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |
| 14 | In his nigh on sixty years , he had lost two fortunes and built up a third . |
| 15 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 17 | Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all . |
| 18 | If she 'd cocked up a second race , Bill would have jocked her off Shine On , whatever Ibn Fayoud said . |
| 19 | A break during the middle of the day and a return to the stables — apart from the question of distance from the field where the work was being done — would have meant unyoking and yoking up a second time for another stint in the afternoon ; and this would have lengthened the day without appreciably lengthening the working time . |
| 20 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 21 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 22 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 23 | This method is also ideal if you have to reknit a neckband or have sewn up the second shoulder in error . |
| 24 | At present , truckers can take a load from one country to another but face obstacles , as do airlines , in picking up a second load to take on to a third country . |
| 25 | Then , on her hands and knees , she worked her way methodically across the floor , picking up every last piece of broken pottery or glass she could find . |
| 26 | The classic one involves picking up stitches with your transfer tool , knitting about seven or eight rows , picking up the next three stitches and repeating along your edge . |
| 27 | The program proceeds by incrementing POINTER , picking up the next delay value from the acceleration table and waiting until the step interval is complete , before generating the next excitation change . |
| 28 | ‘ This must be the confession , ’ said Mr Utterson to himself , picking up the third and largest envelope . |
| 29 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 30 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |