Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 2 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 3 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 4 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 5 | In doing these two things , they tear up the third and fourth commandments of the Christian faith ( Exodus 20:7,8 ) . |
| 6 | With the bolt in the hole , bring up the second part of the joint , and mark round the circumference of the bolt . |
| 7 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 8 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 9 | Er we pay pick up the second the second stage which is the balance of the first year 's payment at er about six to eight week 's later through this banker 's order . |
| 10 | Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) . |
| 11 | Pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 2 and 3 ( one already on needle 2 ) . |
| 12 | Thus , the study emphasises the role of social attitudes in second language learning , ie. attitudes towards learning the second language itself and towards the native speakers who make up the second language community . |
| 13 | Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition . |
| 14 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |
| 15 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 16 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 17 | Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox . |
| 18 | At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on ! |
| 19 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 20 | Thread up the second yarn with a long needle or bodkin and thread this second yarn into the correct slot . |
| 21 | Colleagues who one year lecture you at the Star Chamber on how you have more than enough money turn up the next asking for extra themselves . |
| 22 | Divide up the first two by speciality and the third by region . |
| 23 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 24 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 25 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 26 | What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters . |
| 27 | Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter . |