Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 2 | She drew up a second chair and came and sat by him . |
| 3 | As a result of the rigidity of the museum 's directors , Magritte 's widow drew up a second will , and the new provisions were recognised as valid . |
| 4 | Ms Cann accordingly drew up a second deal , which accounted for all the different royalties ( television , merchandising and so forth ) separately . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you ! ’ he said , and drew up a third chair . |
| 6 | After a few minutes , the door reopened and Eddie returned with a mug of tea , drew up a third chair and sat down . |
| 7 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 8 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 9 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 10 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 11 | In his nigh on sixty years , he had lost two fortunes and built up a third . |
| 12 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 13 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 14 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 15 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , having had far too much to drink , Clare woke up the next morning in James 's bed , saw that it was nearly nine o'clock , fled to work in her crumpled clothes but arrived late again . |
| 17 | When Mary woke up the next morning , she saw a young servant girl cleaning the fireplace . |
| 18 | CHARLES REALLY THOUGHT he was dying when he woke up the next morning . |
| 19 | Rosa too woke up the next day unsure whether she had walked in the street below in a dream , but the mud between her toes showed her that she had indeed left the house . |
| 20 | When Clare woke up the next morning , the sky was grey and the sun was not shining . |
| 21 | Woke up the next morning . |
| 22 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 23 | By the end of the fifth of seven laps the first two groups had come together and at this stage Albert Shaw ( CB Hire/Kings Moss ) and veteran Eddie Crory ( Whirline West Down ) broke away and opened up a 40-second lead . |
| 24 | German Euro Commissioner Martin Bangemann opened up a second front by claiming the Maastricht Treaty was a milestone on the road to a federal Europe . |
| 25 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 26 | An examination of his flat turned up a second picture , not of Chant 's flesh this time , but of his life . |
| 27 | Both women had been surprised when he turned up a second time . |
| 28 | He turned up the first day of the term , picked up his grant , bought a guitar with it and then disappeared ‘ till the start of the next term and that term 's grant cheque . |
| 29 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 30 | When I told Malc , he turned up the next night with a gift-wrapped teddy for the baby . |