Example sentences of "[vb past] up [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shares moved up 2p to 132p yesterday . |
| 2 | Small boats came out to the liner , some bearing vendors of coconuts and bananas , others containing friends and relatives who shouted up names to the rail . |
| 3 | They are the Brockman River 1990 Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon and the 1991 Chardonnay , products of the Chittering Estate Winemaker Steve Scapera learned his art in California and last year built up exports to the American market to 41 million . |
| 4 | Although official prices rose only 2 per cent , unsatisfied consumer demand ( estimated at a value of 165,000 million roubles ) drove up inflation to an annualized rate of 7.5 per cent . |
| 5 | His vision broke frontiers and opened up travel to ordinary people . |
| 6 | Tinka presented a course of work for backpain control , which not only got us ‘ tightening our tummies ’ and protecting our backs , but opened up Medau to a new and very large community of back-pain sufferers . |
| 7 | first world war , sort of , really , opened up education to women and , and really more than anything . |
| 8 | Evidently , the stock market believes that matters will not rest there and Pearl 's share price raced up 87p to 639p . |
| 9 | Here we are , dyke and dybbuk , penned up knee to knee with a gallery of blood relations . |
| 10 | They worked up petitions to parliament while engaging in some correspondence with each other . |
| 11 | Rose , Victorine , Thérèse and Léonie pulled up chairs to the kitchen table and set to . |
| 12 | We , the organisers , put up ideas to the executive committee which arrives at a consensus , then we discuss possible titles that are appropriate and short enough to capture the necessary publicity . |
| 13 | In consequence of the agreement , Mr. Mahmoud gave up possession to the landlord . |
| 14 | Tesco gave up 15½p to 242p on the week , even though profits for last year are expected to be £123 million up at £540 million . |
| 15 | Major M&S supplier Northern Foods gave up 4p to 273p , AB Foods dipped 1p to 505p , and Cadbury Schweppes fell 5p to 448p . |
| 16 | Profits edged up £59,000 to £2.12m before tax . |
| 17 | Shares in Morgan edged up 1p to 469p last night . |
| 18 | ICI was 5p better at £12.65 , Reuters shot ahead 17p to £12.93 while BT edged up 1p to 408p . |
| 19 | Hammerson shot up 45p to 855p in sympathy . |
| 20 | Under the letter of intent , StorageTek agreed to issue 1.3m new shares Amperif shareholders and will set aside about 600,000 shares for warrants and employee stock options , valuing the company at $75.3m at the time of the announcement — but that valuation quickly improved to $83.6m as Storage shares shot up $4.375 to $44 even in after-hours trading on the news , and hovered round there on Friday . |
| 21 | Usher 's share shot up 85p to 165p , rewarding shareholders who had held on through thick and thin . |
| 22 | There was still an infinity of possible circular orbits so Bohr summoned up Planck to his aid to choose among them . |
| 23 | Interestingly , this activity set up references to two different reading contexts : reading television , the context in which the characters originally appeared ; and reading pictures , the format in which the characters were presented . |
| 24 | In often busy trading Scottish shares frothed up 20p to 389p with stories flowing that the French BSN foods and drinks group or the giant US brewer Anheuser-Busch was about to pounce . |
| 25 | Sun discovered Praxsys after it acquired the PC half of Interactive and picked up rights to it . |
| 26 | Finally , the Yugoslav government held up payment to the construction enterprises for several more months , and then paid them in dinars at the current rate of exchange , which was considerably worse than the rate applicable at the time when payment was originally due . |
| 27 | The acquisition , which was widely expected , was welcomed in the City , and Pearson shares jumped up 10p to 429p . |