Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome would have been to open up 14 million hectares of rainforest , so that Cameroon could achieve the TFAP 's target of becoming ‘ the most important African exporter [ of timber ] from the start of the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 2 | You 're going up two squares at a time and you 're going one two three and it 's usually when you get to around where I tend to do it is erm sort of eight and ten . |
| 3 | But the view cos you , you 're going up seven miles |
| 4 | The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises . |
| 5 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 6 | They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 . |
| 7 | Tcket prices are going up 3 pounds for leeds fans ( from 7 to 10 for terraces ) but only 2 pounds for the home fans ( who have some special card apparently ) Could turn out to be quite an expensive trip … |
| 8 | Back in the car G. repeats that the day has been typical except we have n't been called up on the radio and he 's been called up twenty-nine times in the last month . |
| 9 | It appears that this bloody bobby had been locked up two or three times . |
| 10 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 11 | The words seemed to have been dragged up one by one from the depths of himself , like prisoners loaded with chains , and released to the world only with great reluctance . |
| 12 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 13 | ‘ The head of our company is most displeased with Mr Goode and me , ’ Cave said in June , talking on the telephone to an Iranian who was unenthusiastic about weapons prices that had been marked up 300 percent ; ‘ He said if they do n't want to deal , break it off . ’ |
| 14 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 15 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 16 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 17 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 18 | And that 's when he said he said I 'll be going up one night when it 's dark he said . |
| 19 | Instead of this line , which involved the construction of a tunnel , 48 chains long , under the rising ground near Foxton , into the Welland Valley , Barnes recommended boldly that the canal should be raised up six locks immediately , a sharp climb of 75 feet . |
| 20 | No this would , this would be mixing up two very different things . |
| 21 | The second pitfall only applies if you have a relatively slow VAX and will be starting up two or more LIFESPAN Processes in quick succession . |
| 22 | I , you know , usually for the hundred tonight I meant to be served up one packet and that means Wednesday buying |
| 23 | The government will be putting up 50 per cent of the cost of commercial projects in the four key areas , although academic work will be fully funded by the Department of Education and Science ( DES ) . |
| 24 | So it 's got to put up it 's got ta be put up eight per cent , I can tell you that . |
| 25 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ We are bound to face criticism from both sides , from people saying we should be locking up thousands of juvenile offenders and throwing away the key and others throwing up their hands and saying they are like the old approved schools and will be universities of crime . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I really think we ought to be following up one or two of those other leads , sir . |
| 28 | The following story concerns the sighting of a Deltic seen clearly entering Hadley Wood South tunnel , bearing the number 55020 Nimbus , even though the locomotive had been cut up seven months previously . |
| 29 | There are huge logs of mahogany to form panels in the future ; long strips of oak — wood everywhere of all shapes and varieties ; while undercover are stored up thousands of boards for panels , etc . ’ |
| 30 | ( Actions are to hold up five fingers until at ‘ sizzle ’ the fingers begin waving . |