Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I had , got pick up two so I , I just had to give up , I phoned him up when I got here , apologise , he has n't been in touch with Michael yet , I do n't know why not , er , though why , er sorry |
| 2 | Jessamy tried to put up one last feeble show of resistance . |
| 3 | The whole situation seemed both tragic and also profoundly humiliating — as when she 'd picked up one of his sweaters , packed in her suitcase by mistake . |
| 4 | So how long , how many hours would three men have to work , before they 'd made up forty eight man hours ? |
| 5 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 6 | On Monday Clark 's board met to weigh up three rival offers , all believed to be about £150 million . |
| 7 | Dotted around the 50-mile long island are Stallone 's five hideaways which he began buying up 10 years ago . |
| 8 | Eleven days ago these sides contrived to conjure up one of the really memorable Croke Park finals that wo n't be easily forgotten by those fortunate enough to have been present . |
| 9 | ANGRY protestors chanted ‘ killers ’ as wildlife officials in California started rounding up hundreds of diseased ducks for extermination . |
| 10 | So I decided to give up one sugar and you know , I have to take it sort of weak weaker anyway . |
| 11 | The governors of the Mines Royal decided to send up one Captain Thomas Whitmore to investigate , and if possible , educe some means of reviving them … but there is no evidence of any real improvement . |
| 12 | He and Adam went into the house where they managed to scrounge up fifteen quid between the two of them , leaving them with just enough to cover the petrol for Goblander to get home on . |
| 13 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 14 | That did n't happen , but Hirst did set up one of the great matches of the season — and he would have won it but for a superb Peter Schmeichel save at 3-2 . |
| 15 | His slim nose appeared to take up two thirds of his face . |
| 16 | Although he had managed to complete " East Coker " there , his duties as an air-raid warden were becoming too arduous for him — he had to sit up two nights each week , and his general loss of sleep made any kind of work more difficult . |
| 17 | On the other hand , Burton stoutly denied that he had broken up nine marriages : why , he did not even know three of the couples aforementioned . |
| 18 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 19 | so the staff use that and the children had to go up six flights of stairs |
| 20 | Although Gould had wound up two of his principal publications by the time he left England — the concluding part 22 of Birds of Europe was scheduled for July 1837 , and the third and final part of the Trogons appeared on or before 14 March 1838 — Prince was charged with seeing to the publicity and the production of the plates for Darwin 's Zoology of the Beagle , and the printing and colouring of the illustrations for the second part of Icones Avium on the species of Caprimulgidae , or goatsuckers . |
| 21 | Daum later explained his Hanover confession , saying that he was not a doctor and that he had mixed up one or two things . |
| 22 | My new friend and I had picked up two mad women , I said , and we 'd taken lots of this and that and one thing had led to another , as often happens when young people get together . |
| 23 | It was surely in this street that he and old George Percival had picked up two excellent vegetarian take-aways when they were both detective-sergeants on Division . |
| 24 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
| 25 | Harriet had picked up one and tilting back her head , drained it at a single gulp . |
| 26 | The difference in the bowling attacks then became rather noticeable ; by soon after tea on the third day , West Indies had rattled up 411 for 5 when Lloyd declared , with 50 from Fredericks , 135 from Richards , and Greenidge becoming only the second West Indian after Headley to score a century in each innings against England . |
| 27 | John had turned up one day in the shop . |
| 28 | In the morning , the Whig mayor , John Eyles , arrived at St Mary 's at 10 a.m. to find the Tory mayor , Richard Bundy Franklin , had turned up two hours early and was installed in the mayor 's pew . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to pick up two bikes from Stockton and , because I could n't park outside my shop , I got soaked in heavy rain wheeling them in . ’ |
| 30 | This was mostly because the $40.3 billion charged to its cards was far ahead of Discover 's $19.4 billion , and because Citibank had built up three times as much outstanding debt as Discover . |