Example sentences of "[verb] up [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , it seemed that the antics of marine woodworms in the piling of Barmouth 's 115 span timber bridge would rob the Cambrian coast of its railway , but BR surprisingly stumped up £500,000 for short-term repairs , and , after a seven-month closure , the line was back in business . |
| 2 | We send up data about ourselves and our problems . |
| 3 | We send up data about others and their problems . |
| 4 | The shares moved up 2p to 132p yesterday . |
| 5 | BT rings up £1bn with US sell off |
| 6 | She is now thought to have picked up £250,000 in court actions around the world . |
| 7 | Netwise Inc has picked up $8.5m in third-round venture capital from eight firms including Hancock Venture Partners and the Japan Associated Finance Co , both of whom are new to the company : the money will be used for further development . |
| 8 | Five-year-old graphical user interface house XVT Software Inc in Boulder , Colorado has picked up $1m in first-round financing from JMI Equity Fund Ltd in Sugar Land , Texas : the company says the money will be used to underwrite further development of portable interactive design tools and portable object-oriented tools . |
| 9 | The industry is also interested in signing up people in Brazil to write programs ( Brazil boasts a large number of Japanese emigres ) . |
| 10 | By this means we build up data on the quality of a raw material , its variability and the reliance of a supplier in the quality concept . |
| 11 | Sugar , who with his directors holds a 36% stake in the group , is stumping up £19.5m of his own money for the deal . |
| 12 | UB 's shares only nudged up 3p to 352p . |
| 13 | In the half it used up £21m of this provision , and the net cash outflow of the group was £40m . |
| 14 | The problem here is that as a $4,300 box it 's fitted with only 207Mb external disk and 16Mb internal memory , barely enough to handle the Solaris 2.1 operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space and prefers 24Mb minimum . |
| 15 | Former GB tourist Des Foy and fellow centre John Henderson are also on their way to Fartown , with Oldham picking up £10,000 for the pair . |
| 16 | SMITH & NEPHEW is to pick up £46.5m from selling the Nivea skin care brand back to Beiersdorf 50 years after it was confiscated from the German company during the Second World War . |
| 17 | Welsh Secretary John Redwood promised to pick up 85pc of the bill after Gwynedd County Council has spent £400,000 and Aberconwy Council £21,000 of their own money . |
| 18 | More realistically , it is easy for each of us to pick up $3,000 of the banker 's money by both playing COOPERATE on all ten rounds of the game . |
| 19 | It was n't difficult to pick up people for casual sex but it was difficult to transfer that casual sex contact into any sort of relationship . |
| 20 | This might be explained by WIRS s failure to pick up data on casual workers , the form of temporary worker employed in low skill service occupations . |
| 21 | As with TA , unless you are fond of playing with computer programmes ask someone more expert to set up CC for you . |
| 22 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 23 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 24 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 25 | It may be , says George , that the public should be privy to the codes which doctors use to rustle up data on drugs on their TV screens . |
| 26 | The central vista is a high dyke leading to an observation tower where visitors can spiral up 75m for a bird's-eye view of the site and — on a clear day — Rotterdam and the North Sea . |
| 27 | Researchers in Britain have drawn up data on climate change which warns of massive disruption to agriculture and loss of vital eco-systems in China . |
| 28 | Evidently , the stock market believes that matters will not rest there and Pearl 's share price raced up 87p to 639p . |
| 29 | Grumman finally coughed up $40m in 1988 in settlement of the legal claims against it . |
| 30 | Plant and machinery : Leasing was hauled up 12% to £3bn |