Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not to be , for although we were all keyed up like first violins , having heard Churchill 's great ‘ Their finest hour ’ speech on June 15th with les soldats Francaises listening as well , Whitehall had decided that better arrangements had to be made for children than care in one of the best London hospitals . |
| 2 | A budget should be built up from first principles , to identify the component tasks , the resources which are needed to carry out these tasks and to enable the required resources to be costed . |
| 3 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're not there yet , because it 's not mathematically certain we can stay up , ’ insisted manager Ian Branfoot , whose team have now crept up to 17th place . |
| 5 | He must have succeeded since by the end of the next day we 'd moved up to fifth place , and we got our permit to camp for two nights by the Colorado . |
| 6 | He was ranked 18th by the WBC in mid-summer , but promoter Barry Hearn said he would have moved up to ninth on the next list and so qualified for the fight . |
| 7 | The forward order book has moved up since last month , but lags its long-term average ( 3.0 months ' work ) . |
| 8 | Now football , and Swindon Town have moved up into sixth place in the first division after beating Grimsby Town one-nil at the County Ground last night . |
| 9 | Alton sent two teams to the competition , made up of first and second year students . |
| 10 | The new Falcons recruits wo n't be jumping , the team 's made up by second and third years plus experienced guest jumpers . |
| 11 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 12 | Experts from 24 countries met in Trondheim , Norway , in May under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) to discuss implementation of the biodiversity treaty drawn up at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 13 | I took this as his Imprimateur , his permission if you like for me to go away and write aqbout what Toad really got up to next rather than being annoyingly good as he is at the end of Wind in the Willows |
| 14 | American children whose mothers were called up during last year 's Gulf War felt they had been abandoned , an in-depth study of their feelings showed . |
| 15 | The research will seek to show how the Council , originally set up in mid-nineteenth century when medical practice was greatly different from today , has responded to the changed circumstances . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's gone up since last time , ’ I replied . |
| 17 | With about half a mile to go Elliott decided that it was time to make a move , and in a matter of a few strides Phar Lap had stormed up from last to first . |
| 18 | Every so of ten the dog would break away and belt off to splash in the shallows or to investigate something smelly , thrown up by last night 's tide . |
| 19 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 20 | Each group was led by a soloist representing the leader of a particular orchestral section so that as the themes were taken up by first one and then another section , the various groups of dancers joined in . |
| 21 | After serving an apprenticeship in Formula Three , he had recently been signed up as second driver by Dalgety , a leading Formula One team . |
| 22 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp Windows NT , their Unix efforts will hang separately , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc , Univel Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at last week 's UniForum trade show in San Francisco to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix workstation vendors ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 23 | Hall replied to Cowley on 4th November that the premiums could not be altered , but designs from architects not residing in Britain could be submitted up to 4th April , 1857 . |
| 24 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |
| 25 | It was ancient conservatism dressed up in nineteenth century costume and , incidentally , hard to combine with that other biological image of the century which stood for change and progress , namely ‘ evolution ’ . |
| 26 | In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests . |