Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | About eight in ten pensioners have some sort of second income to top up their state pension . |
| 2 | But the giant duo strode imperiously through the mud during the second half to set up Saints ' two match-clinching tries . |
| 3 | The second half opened up with Theresa Harrison hitting ten points as Sunderland eased to a 47–29 victory . |
| 4 | I thought , ‘ Well , I 've got second place wrapped up for the Open ! ’ |
| 5 | It was second nature to weigh up a situation and draw conclusions but this was not just another news story , this was different . |
| 6 | Eventually , in what would then have been interpreted as a generous gesture on the part of the Poor Law authorities , the wife was freed in order to give her a second chance to build up a home . |
| 7 | I I do n't think that 's a problem because we 're doing erm we 're doing two blocks of six and we 're onto the fourth of the first block now , but then the second block comes up in September and October , so it 's certainly in time for that . |
| 8 | The second man brought up his gun and fired from the cover of his wounded companion . |
| 9 | Leroy Burrell , whose storming second leg set up the Yanks for their 37.40 seconds power show in the relay , commented : ‘ Carl is in better shape than anybody who came to Barcelona . |
| 10 | There was thus little in the second reign to stir up renewed animosity towards the Woodvilles . |
| 11 | There was thus little in the second reign to stir up renewed animosity towards the Woodvilles . |
| 12 | The second statement sums up the News International ban precisely , and the following sentence reflects the dilemma that was faced by many librarians in the dispute ; though not by all , because for many librarians who supported the ban there was no dilemma . |
| 13 | A second path leads up to the Castle from below . |
| 14 | If you were wise at the time , you will have had a second report bound up and filed , containing every fact used , every reference studied , all the results of tests , every reason you had in mind when you drew your conclusions — and you alone will have access to these private notes . |
| 15 | It was a shambles , gangs openly using drugs in the street , every second house boarded up . |
| 16 | Admired and rejected , the primitive rite is also linked with the city ; the isolated last line of the poem 's second section summons up the field and its dancing , leading to a juxtaposition with the urban world which follows . |
| 17 | To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection . |
| 18 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 19 | When the Second Son drove up with a whoosh , I ran over to him and after kissing him both hello and goodbye , told him to call my husband in London . |
| 20 | Now he has called on British Rail for a second time to step up safety and end the easy access to the East Coast main line . |
| 21 | I hope that the British Council will give its fullest support to ventures of this kind in the future , and will encourage the group which met at Jaipur in their plan to hold a second Workshop to follow up the work of this one . |
| 22 | The gap between birth- and death-rates from the eighteenth century opened up an unparalleled new window for population growth . |
| 23 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 24 | A neat interchange in the 24th minute set up a good chance for Dinamo 's Djamaravli , but he scooped his shot high and wide . |
| 25 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 26 | It is a tribute to EMI engineers of the time and their faithful successors today that this and the even earlier ( 1937 ) version of Sibelius 's Fourth Symphony come up sounding so truthful ( CDM7 64027 2 ) . |
| 27 | But David 's decided to get involved in this in his sixth year coming up to his A levels |
| 28 | That first sentence setting up the idea in the reader 's mind that not only has the narrator committed a murder but that something has gone wrong and he has , despite all precautions , been found out . |
| 29 | After all Stonehenge was thousands of years old before the first bus-load pulled up . |
| 30 | The first try lit up the ground in the 23rd minute and followed two surging drives . |